Water

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Every tire produces a chemical that kills coho salmon. Can scientists pump the brakes?

What do you do when one of the most lethal substances to aquatic life emanates from every tire on the road?
- Stephen Howie
Northwest starts to feel the heat following un-snowy winter

Fire experts are bracing for a bad summer for wildfires around the western United States, a sneak peek of conditions in years ahead as the earth’s climate continues to warm.
- John Ryan
The Stillaguamish Tribe gives its river north of Seattle room to roam

“Now the river can connect to its floodplain like it hasn't in 140 years.”
- John Ryan
Can a watershed have legal rights? The Snohomish River debate deepens

The tide is turning in a Snohomish County legal battle over whether a river and its watershed have legal rights that can be defended in court.
- KUOW Staff
Glacierless Peak? The icy realms of Washington’s North Cascades lose their cool

The ice fields that give Washington’s Glacier Peak its name are disappearing, though few people may have noticed.
- John Ryan
King County’s little red fish swims back from brink of extinction

More kokanee salmon have spawned in streams above Lake Sammamish in 2024 than at any other time in a decade.
- John Ryan
Too much cyanide in Puget Sound? EPA to review state regulations

Federal officials have agreed to take another look at how Washington state regulates a deadly poison — cyanide.
- John Ryan
Bremerton treats Kitsap Lake to tackle toxic algae

Ever heard of lanthanum? The city of Bremerton plans to use a powdered form of lanthanum to lower levels of phosphorus in the city’s only lake, Kitsap Lake.
- John Ryan
Military families in Hawaii spark trial over 2021 jet fuel leak that tainted water

A trial for a mass environmental injury case begins in Hawaii on Monday, more than two years after a U.S. military facility poisoned thousands of people when it leaked jet fuel into drinking water.
- The Associated Press
How beverage battles undermined the tap and gave rise to bottled water

Dip into your average grocery or convenience store, and you’ll have your pick of at least a dozen different brands of bottled water. But despite being so ubiquitous in American culture today, the meteoric rise of bottled water isn't by coincidence -- and your average bottle and average tap have more in common than you might think.
- Libby Denkmann

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