Advocates say the Federal government is keeping a fish supply behind dams during a major salmon shortage. The salmon need to be able to swim upstream to reproduce, but can’t naturally due to the dams.

The stories of salmon and orcas in the Pacific Northwest are linked. Their paths intermingle in a vast web of ecosystems and ...

Inspiring environmental educators in drawing out students’ and communities’ “inner scientists” is the aim of the Storming the Sound conference, as a banner from the 2018 event urges. This year marked ...

Maybe the story of the orca mom and her dead calf spoke to me when it made headlines six years ago because I was swimming ...

It was cheap to take our car on a ferry from Townsend to Coupeville, where we explored Whidbey Island. On the ride, we saw ...

The month of December brought the endangered Southern Resident killer whales sadness and joy.

The many Puget Sound ferry systems saw a boost in riders last year, as the state worked to regain its footing and other, ...

A January 2025 article from the BBC’s Jasmin Fox-Skelly details numerous examples, from an elderly elephant shedding tears ...

This makes Washington state the first place in the world to successfully implement a ban on all new commercial net pens, and ...

Of Washington's 16 James Beard Award semifinalists, 15 are in the Seattle area. Semifinalists for the Oscars of the culinary ...

This week, we are celebrating a monumental environmental victory for Puget Sound’s ecosystems, Washington Tribal Nations and ...