By Sound News reporter Christina Madden
A cancer causing air pollutant will soon be reduced from the air in Seattle according to the Environmental Protection Agency. This reduction is expected to lower the incidence of health effects according to the EPA, who announced a grant to the Puget Sound Clean Air Agencyof $850,000 in order to [...]
By Puget Sound reporter Lyndsay Gordon
L-57, named Faith, was recently publicly announced as missing and he has been missing since Fall 2008. This is the first stretch of time that Faith has not been sighted with his family, the L pod. Orca’s are declared missing when researchers don’t observe them when their family groups are [...]
By Sound News reporter Jeanne Fulcher
When the first run of kokanee salmon was declared “functionally extinct” in 2003, King County officials had some guesses as to what was going on, but no solid answers. And without answers, they weren’t sure they could help the two remaining kokanee runs.
King County and the Washington Department of Fish [...]
Last summer a group of UW students and I went to Greece to ask hundreds of residents one question. Time and time again, we got the same response; “I can do nothing.”
There are probably a million things we could have asked the people to get this response. From starvation to terrorism to natural disasters, there [...]
By Sound News reporter Tye Rogerson
Senate Bill 5687, Transit-Oriented Communities is scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means today at 1:30pm. Its prime sponsors: Representatives Sharon Nelson and Senator Chris Marr
What is it? Well, the idea is that we construct in a more compact manner while simultaneously developing with climate [...]
By Sound News reporter Reisha Abolofia
Puget Sound consumers have begun to consider their local environment rather than just their means of grocery storage.
In April of 2008, Mayor Greg Nickels proposed a 20-cent bag tax to encourage shoppers to bring their own reusable bags. Since the proposal passed, shifts to only providing paper bags and selling [...]
By Sound News Reporter Emilia Ptak
“Tug on anything and you will find it connected to everything else.” The message of interrelatedness, adopted from the writings of the naturalist John Muir, welcomes you upon entering the expansive lodge at the outdoor learning center IslandWood. Written in a flowing cursive that weaves around a vast, steal, infinity [...]
Leaders of the Puget Sound Partnership spoke with KUOW last week about the progress of the Partnership’s Puget Sound Action Agenda.
During the show, David Dicks, PSP executive director, and Bill Ruckelshaus, first chair of the of the PSP’s Leadership Council, spoke specifically about how moving forward with restoration projects could help boost the economy. They [...]
During the opening day of the Puget Sound Georgia Basin Ecoystem Conference, I sat in on a talk by Joel Baker of the University of Washington-Tacoma.
Baker brought up some interesting points in his talk, “The Health of the Salish Sea”, including several that addressed problems with restoration. It is especially pertinent now as several huge [...]
By Sound News reporter Lyndsay Gordon
Three movies, three plots, three sets of characters, but one animal: the orca whale. A horror movie, an educational movie, and a children’s film all star an orca whale but cast the creature in very different lights. Hollywood has captured in bits and pieces the history between humans and [...]
