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Seattle Now: A new vision for the Northwest

There’s a giant environment and energy proposal in congress that would reinvision a huge chunk of the West, including Washington. It comes from a surprising place: a Republican from a conservative rural district in Idaho.
- Clare McGrane
ENCORE: Why Sea Level Rise Varies Across The World

The sea level is rising more in some coastal places than in others. But why is that? It has to do with wind, currents, glaciers and even the last Ice Age.
- Rebecca Hersher
Forest Thinning To Reduce Wildfire Risk Gives Opportunity To New Startups

The country's overgrown forests need to be aggressively thinned to reduce wildfire risk. That creates massive piles of worthless brush and branches, but some businesses see a new market for them.
- Sam Brasch
Texas Governor Calls For Investigation Into Group That Manages State Power Grid

Dire warnings of price hikes are coming from electricity retailers that normally offer customers low prices based on daily wholesale rates. They are telling customers to conserve or switch providers.
- Bill Chappell
Why Firefighters Are Facing A Growing Mental Health Challenge

Climate change is fueling more destructive, harder-to-control disasters like last year's massive wildfires. The mental and emotional toll for firefighters and first responders is alarming.
- Nathan Rott
Pillagers Of Tropical Forests Can't Hide Behind Clouds Anymore

Environmental watchdogs now can detect deforestation even when it's hidden from sight by rain and clouds. They're using data from radar on a European satellite.
- Dan Charles
Get out your rulers, the snow has arrived in Seattle

The threat of snow - and the, well, exciting traffic patterns that come with it - may not be on our minds today. But that's likely to change.
- Dyer Oxley
Seattle Schools to stop using fossil fuels in 20 years

Seattle Public Schools aims to stop using fossil fuels in the school district’s buildings and buses in the next 20 years. Though that timeline is half as ambitious as a citywide one adopted by Seattle in 2019, backers say it’s the first school district in Washington to commit to phasing out fossil fuels.
- John Ryan
Avalanche deaths a grim reminder of NW's backcountry danger

Last week, 14 people died in avalanches across the country, making it the deadliest week for avalanches since 1910. Why has this year already been especially deadly?
- Katie Campbell
Elon Musk Funds $100 Million XPrize For Pursuit Of New Carbon Removal Ideas

The goal, XPrize says, is to tackle "the biggest threat facing humanity — fighting climate change and rebalancing Earth's carbon cycle. "
- Bill Chappell

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