Pollution

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Baby wipes, tree roots led to 165,000-gallon sewage spill at Golden Gardens

Wading at Golden Gardens? Safe again. Flushing baby wipes? Never safe

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Sedan overboard! How the sea floor got littered with cars off the Northwest coast

Dotting the sea floor is something you wouldn’t expect in this remote and watery wilderness: crushed cars, with Canadian bumper stickers and license plates.

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What are that new baby orca’s chances of surviving?

The calf, still ruddy and wrinkled from its time in the womb, brings the endangered population of southern resident killer whales up to 76.

Electric floatplanes could help sink two big pollution problems

The zero-emission planes can't fly far, but they could help sink two big air-pollution problems.

Carbon problem gets worse in WA — despite 'climate hawk' governor

Gov. Jay Inslee has made fighting climate change a priority throughout his career and his positioning himself as a climate-driven candidate for president.

What's Amazon's climate change plan?

A group of Amazon stakeholders is calling on the company to be bolder on climate change.

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He was a veteran with four months to live. This is how he restored Hamm Creek

If you knew that you only had four months to live, what would you do? After suffering three heart attacks, John Beal was told that he was going to die. He decided to use the rest of his life to clean up Hamm Creek, an offshoot of the Duwamish River so polluted the water was yellow. That decision changed the course of John's life and transformed Hamm Creek.