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Topic: Pacific Northwest

Windmills in Eastern Oregon. (Getty Images / zaft)

Northwest's lagging green energy goals

Tony Schick, Monica Samayoa - ProPublica
Heavy waves break against the Oregon coast as a bomb cyclone storm system moves over the Northwest United States on October 24, 2021. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Bomb cyclone kills one in Northwest

Matthew Rozsa
Barred Owl mother keeps a watchful eye on her fledglings (Getty Images/Judith Rawcliffe)

Owl-Qaeda shoots one owl to save another

Christopher J. Preston
A bike rider is pictured as an excessive heat warning remains in effect a day after record-breaking temperatures from a historic heatwave throughout the region in Seattle, Washington on June 29, 2021. (JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change and the PNW heat wave

Shannon Osaka - Grist
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A Cal Fire firefighter monitors the Kincaide Fire as it burns a hillside on October 24, 2019 in Geyserville, California. Fueled by high winds, the Kincaide Fire has burned over 7,000 acres in a matter of hours and has prompted evacuations in the Geyserville area. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images))

Wildfires in the West

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Japanese Giant Hornet – Vespa mandarinia (Getty Images/Alastair Macewen)

The plot to eradicate the murder hornet

Nicole Karlis
A healthcare worker prepares to transport a patient on a stretcher into an ambulance at Life Care Center of Kirkland on February 29, 2020 in Kirkland, Washington. Dozens of staff and residents at Life Care Center of Kirkland are reportedly exhibiting coronavirus-like symptoms, with two confirmed cases of (COVID-19) associated with the nursing facility reported so far. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

Coronavirus spread underestimated in WA

Nicole Karlis
Sockeye salmon (AP/Barry Sweet)

Review of toxic pesticides halted

Susie Neilson - Reveal
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(Paul Aiken/Daily Camera via AP)

Greenland is burning

Dahr Jamail - Truthout
A helicopter drops water on the fire as crews battle the Sunshine Fire in the Sunshine canyon area of Boulder, Colo. on Sunday, March 19, 2017. (Jeremy Papasso/Daily Camera via AP) (AP)

Heat in the northwest

Eric Holthaus - Grist
Goddess Fortuna Ritual hosted by the Columbia Grove, A Druid Fellowship, honoring Fortuna, Roman goddess of fortune, prosperity, offerings of incense and flowers, Druid, (Katharine Kimball Photography?Narratively)

Caitlin Dwyer - Narratively

Bill Morlin - Southern Poverty Law Center
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A photo of the author's daughter Laura

When my daughter was diagnosed

George Estreich
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