Climate change increases wildfire risks through rising temperatures, which reduces winter snowpack, and produces hotter and drier summers. This directly impacts the number and severity of wildfires ...

Pick it up, bag it, and throw it in the trash. Contact with pet waste can make people sick and possibly cause disease. Also, nutrients from dog poop can feed the growth of aquatic plants and algae. As ...

For Ecology, Earth Day is more than just one day a year — it’s our mission every day. From responding to climate change, ...

To support salmon recovery, our research identifies how toxic flame retardants move through and build up in the Snohomish ...

We invite interested members of the public, local, and tribal governments to review and comment on required 5-year updates to industry-written oil spill contingency plans. Washington Administrative ...

Más de la mitad del uso del agua ocurre en el baño. Cierra la llave mientras te rasuras o cepillas los dientes. (Ahorro: ¡cerca de 4 galones por minuto o hasta 200 galones a la semana por una familia ...

Puget Sound faces many threats from the everyday activities of the 4.5 million people who live on or around the nation’s second largest marine estuary. The Puget Sound region includes 2,800 square ...

When was the last time you generated clean hydrogen fuel using an electrolyzer? Science classes have come a long way since the days of vinegar-and-baking-soda volcanoes. We helped create and fund ...

A typical day for watershed health crew members can look like hiking in forests and wading through streams on warm, sunny days. Do you enjoy spending your summer outside? Are you interested in science ...

In 2024, the Washington Legislature passed Senate Bill 5649 amending the state’s floodplain management law allowing substantial improvements and alterations to certain homes located in floodways – the ...

We review conditions at sites where some contamination remains about every five years, to make sure the cleanup is still effective. Our first review of this site confirmed that the cleanup is working ...