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How is Washington's snowpack looking this spring?
- John O'Brien
Businesses face more and more pressure from investors to act on climate change

At annual meetings this spring, shareholders will be pushing publicly-traded companies for information about how they're contributing to climate change, and what they're doing about the problem.
- Michael Copley
California salmon fishing slated to shut down this year due to low stock

Federal researchers expect a near-record-low stock of Chinook salmon, one of the largest and most highly prized fish in the Pacific Ocean.
- Juliana Kim
Rolling toward Washington state: support for e-bikes

E-bikes flatten hills and make it possible for people who aren’t strong bikers to go 20 miles or more without wearing themselves out – or trashing the planet.
- John Ryan
The high environmental cost of cheap cruises

Next month, it begins again. Tourists flooding Pike Place Market, plonking their luggage onto precious light rail seats, crowding downtown bars and restaurants. Yes, we’re talking about the start of the Alaska cruise season.
- Libby Denkmann
Hawaii's lawmakers mull imposing fees to pay for ecotourism crush

Hawaii lawmakers are considering legislation that would require tourists to pay for a yearlong license or pass to visit state parks and trails. They're still debating how much they would charge.
- The Associated Press
The bicoastal effort to bring Lolita home

For over 50 years, Lolita the Southern resident orca has lived in an oceanarium in Miami. For years, people have worked to bring her home, to no avail. But that changed on Thursday, when the Miami Seaquarium made its first public commitment to return Lolita home. Linda Robertson of the Miami Herald along with the leaders of the Whale Sanctuary and Sacred Seas Land Conservancy are here to tell us what has changed and what Lolita’s future might hold.
- Brooklyn Jamerson-Flowers
Why deforestation means less rain in tropical forests

A new study finds deforestation reduces rainfall in tropical rainforests, which has grave consequences for agriculture, drought and climate resilience.
- Seyma Bayram
The EPA's watchdog is warning about oversight for billions in new climate spending

The Environmental Protection Agency received billions from President Biden's climate legislation, but the EPA inspector general warns there is "a high risk for fraud, waste and abuse."
- Eric McDaniel
6 things to know about heat pumps, a climate solution in a box

Sales of super-efficient electric heat pumps are rising in the U.S. But what are heat pumps? And why do some call them a key climate solution?
- Julia Simon

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