John Ryan

Researchers in Washington and British Columbia say they have solved a deadly mystery that has stumped scientists for more than a decade.

Citizen scientists work to help save the western bumblebee, which has all but disappeared from the Northwest.

The Quinault Indian Nation in Washington state is gradually moving the village of Taholah away from a rising Pacific Ocean. Other communities in the U.S. may need to take a similar approach.

Energy utilities in Washington and Oregon asked their customers to curtail gas and electricity usage on Saturday after the Northwest’s largest storehouse of natural gas shut down amid extreme cold temperatures.

The FBI is offering $50,000 in hopes of catching whoever shot up two electrical substations in Oregon and Washington in November.

The largest glacier between the high peaks of Mount Rainier and Glacier Peak has melted away after a long battle with global warming.

This brings the total of reported attacks on the Northwest power grid to 10 since November. Attacks on substations in the Pacific Northwest have heightened concerns about grid vulnerabilities.

Record-breaking heat took a heavy toll on the Northwest this summer, from beaches to cities to mountaintops. In the Washington Cascades, some glaciers lost an unprecedented 8% to 10% of their ice in a single hot summer.

Since last November, three members of the long-endangered population have died, most recently an emaciated young female known as J50.

Scientists have taken an unprecedented step to save one of the Salish Sea’s 75 endangered orcas: They tried to feed her in the wild.