A major river restoration project is likely forthcoming, but fish and tribes in the basin face ongoing water and climate troubles A decades-long effort to remove four hydroelectric dams from the Klamath River may soon come to fruition. In the Klamath Basi ...
2 Nov 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
After a wet spring, Portland is drought-free, but that’s not the case for the rest of the state Portland is emerging from one of the wettest springs on record and heading into summer drought-free, but Oregonians outside of the Willamette Valley aren’t fee ...
29 Jun 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
One year removed from the deadly 'heat dome,' Portlanders will gather to mourn those who died — and call for better outcomes in the future Portland’s first “ Heat Week ” began during the last week of June to commemorate the 69 lives lost last su ...
24 Jun 2022 - Christine Menges
Scientists urge regulators to address marine health, sound alarm about acidification S teven Rumrill watches mass deaths take place deep under the surface of the ocean. Last summer, he watched hundreds of crabs struggle to reach a part of the ocean where ...
17 Feb 2022 - Piper McDaniel
Gov. Kate Brown called for reduction of diesel emissions in an ambitious climate order, but experts and advocates remain skeptical the state has the infrastructure to get it done A state agency is moving forward with regulations to reduce the environment ...
11 Aug 2021 - Jake Thomas
Legislators are taking a sector-by-sector approach this session, but is it enough? O ver three decades after the Oregon Legislature set its first target to address global warming, the state has failed to put a dent in its greenhouse gas emissions. Creepin ...
21 Apr 2021 - Chris May
We need an infrastructure that works, and we can’t ignore climate change An unprecedented cold wave in Texas recently left several million households without power for days on end, as temperatures dropped well below freezing. Dozens of people died from hy ...
3 Mar 2021 - Gordon Walker
The Coast Range Association embraces the Green New Deal with a proposal for carbon sequestration T his week, the Coast Range Association is delivering a forest carbon sequestration proposal to key climate leaders in Congress and the Oregon Congressional d ...
13 Jan 2021 - Chuck Willer
The Oregon journalist discusses her new book, ‘As the World Burns,’ about young people’s lawsuit against the federal government For the past five years, 21 young people from across the country have wended their way through the court system as plaintiffs i ...
23 Sep 2020 - Chris May
We continue to break record temperatures and hurtle toward disaster, but there have been some notable victories, too The water that runs through the canals of Venice is clear, clearer than it has been in decades. It apparently just needed a vacation from ...
17 Sep 2020 - Tom Henderson