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Courtney Flatt

Richland

Environment Reporter at Northwest Public Radio

Environment stories for @nwNewsNetwork

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  • 2 weeks ago | opb.org | Courtney Flatt

    Carol Taylor shows off horseshoes she’s planning on using as decorations for her camping trailer, named Isabella, that was renovated by a group of young women welders at Tri-Tech Skills Center in Kennewick, Wash. For years, Carol Taylor has watched from her car window as a Kennewick man slowly turned an old school bus into a camping trailer. She said it now looks like a “luxury hotel.” By this time, she’d retired.

  • 2 weeks ago | nwpb.org | Courtney Flatt

    For decades, a 550-foot causeway has connected the Richland shoreline to Bateman Island, a spot popular with local birders, hikers and fishers. However, the causeway blocks water flowing from the Yakima River into the Columbia. And that’s made the area popular for predators, looking for a tasty snack of migrating salmon. “ In one day (a Yakama Nation predatory biologist) caught 10,000 (bass and predation fish),” said Joe Blodgett, who manages the Yakama Nation’s Yakima Klickitat Fisheries Project.

  • 2 weeks ago | nwpb.org | Courtney Flatt

    For years, Carol Taylor has watched from her car window as a Kennewick man slowly turned an old school bus into a camping trailer. She said it now looks like a “luxury hotel.” By this time, she’d retired. Still, the 77-year-old wanted to get out and travel, but she didn’t want to sleep on the ground anymore. As the bus came together, she thought that she’d be able to do something similar. In fact, she’d done it before –– with four other campers. So, she started scouting around for parts.

  • 2 weeks ago | nwpb.org | Courtney Flatt

    A $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation will help Washington State University researchers plan for power outages related to wildfires. WSU researchers said they hope to better understand the interplay between wildfires and the power grid. Sometimes, wildfires cause power outages and sometimes power infrastructure causes wildfires.

  • 3 weeks ago | nwpb.org | Courtney Flatt

    Breathing in too much wildfire smoke can cause lung and heart troubles. Now, sensors developed in part by Washington State University could test your smoke exposure before health problems crop up. The sensors are kind of like a pregnancy test. Same method on a paper strip, but the patented sensors deliver much more sensitive measurements.

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12 Sep 23

RT @ZachsORoutdoors: A generation of Oregon kids are growing up in a wildfire era fundamentally different from their parents. Unhealthy air…

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29 Jun 23

RT @misslolomarie: I am also working on this series with Rachel. If you have been affected by the recent changes to abortion access in Idah…

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RT @evanbush: Three of Mount Rainier's glaciers have melted away – yet another sign of mountain ice's rapid, worldwide decline. The decli…