Climate

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Environment

How do the Los Angeles fires compare to the Great Seattle Fire? We mapped it out

The Palisades and Eaton fires have burned over 37,830 acres as of Tuesday afternoon. That’s a burn area 300 times larger than that of the Great Seattle Fire of 1889.
Teo Popescu
Western Washington is having a dry (weather) January, and a cold one
Dyer Oxley

Natalie Akane Newcomb
Books

'Being is bliss' in Timothy Egan's 'The Good Rain' — and still is three decades later

This is the KUOW Book Club, and we’re wrapping up "The Good Rain" by Timothy Egan. I'm your club guide, Katie Campbell.
Katie Campbell
Elections

Will Washington state do away with cap-and-trade? Voices for and against I-2117

As Washington Gov. Jay Inslee prepares to leave office, the core of his legacy is under attack on the November general election ballot.
Libby Denkmann

Hans Anderson
Elections

As election day nears, climate repeal turns up the heat on WA’s transportation budget crisis
Jeanie Lindsay
Environment

Seattle nonprofit says effort to repeal Climate Commitment Act would eliminate new food donation sources

A hunger relief organization in Seattle has joined environmental interests in opposing Initiative 2117, a fall ballot measure to repeal the state’s Climate Commitment Act.
Ruby de Luna
Climate

'Wimpy' winter ahead for Pacific Northwest despite La Niña prediction, climatologist says
Angela King

Katie Campbell
Late-summer heat wave bakes Western Washington — but not for long

Most of Western Washington will be under a heat advisory until 11 p.m. Friday, with higher-than-average temperatures expected and potentially record-breaking highs for the second day in a row.
Katie Campbell

Angela King
Environment

In Kenya's flooded slums, people mourn their losses and slam their leaders

The government has declared May 10 a day of mourning to mark the deaths from disastrous floods and pledged to help. But some say the authorities aren't doing enough. And the rains keep falling.
Emmanuel Igunza
Environment

Can we combat climate change by brightening clouds?

A University of Washington professor is the lead researcher on a team experimenting with "cloud brightening" technology to make clouds more reflective so they bounce more of the sun’s rays back out to space, theoretically cooling the Earth and combating global warming.
Diana Opong

Alec Cowan

Hans Anderson

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