• Data centers are thirsty for water. This Nevada region is prepared, at least for now

  The center sits in the nation’s driest state and will require billions of gallons of water to operate.
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  Cleaning leaf-clogged bike lanes on Seattle’s Eastside — using bike power

  Fall in the Seattle area means lots of leaves in bike lanes. Slippery, soggy leaves can be dangerous on two wheels. Now, volunteers in Kirkland have a clever, new tool to clean bike lanes from the seat of a bike.

  • Casey Martin
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  A bright spot for turtles: Olive ridleys are recovering in India, but still at risk

  India's olive ridley turtle numbers appear to have rebounded after years of patchwork efforts to stem their decline. Can it last?

  • Diaa Hadid
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  The U.S. produces a lot of food waste. This place wants to address it

  Even amid rising grocery prices and increased sensitivity to environmental issues, Americans still trash once-edible food at alarming rates.

  • Alana Wise
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  Mount Rainier is shrinking (just a bit), new study finds

  The Pacific Northwest’s highest peak is a little less lofty than it used to be, according to a new study.

  • John Ryan
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  ‘His eyes were as big as saucers.’ Remembering the Whatcom Creek explosion

  "It's not an easy story to tell." That's the way host Chris Morgan introduces a recent episode of his podcast "The Wild." The focus is a terrible accident that occurred 26 years ago, on June 10, 1999, in Bellingham, Washington. The Olympic Pipeline explosion killed three boys and destroyed a large swath of the Whatcom Creek Watershed. KUOW’s Kim Malcolm talked to Morgan about what happened and the recovery process.

  • Chris Morgan
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  U.N. climate talks end without agreement on phasing out fossil fuels

  Dozens of countries had called for a clear "roadmap" to transition away from the use of coal, oil and natural gas. The U.S. did not participate in the negotiations.

  • Rebecca Hersher
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  'I thought he was dead.' Crabbing crew recount dramatic rescue off Washington coast

  Marcus Cole, the co-owner of the crabbing vessel "Lady Nancy," has been fishing the waters off the coast of Washington state since 1999. Monday morning, he and his crew heard a distress call from a boat called the Abby C. The coordinates placed them near the entrance of Grays Harbor.

  • Natalie Akane Newcomb
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  Makah Tribe’s treaty-protected whaling rights remain blocked after more than 25 years

  Despite the Makah Tribe’s success in getting a waiver to carry out their exclusive treaty right for whaling, the permitting process that had dragged on for over 20 years has now been effectively delayed another year and a half because of bogged-down federal bureaucracy. The Makah Tribe is the only one in the Lower 48 that has an exclusive treaty right to whaling.

  • Bellamy Pailthorp/KNKX
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  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

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