Isabella Breda

Bremerton, Everett, Thousand Oaks

Environmental Journalist at Seattle Times

enviro @seattletimes. part time mountain goat. 🐟🐝🌲🏔️ (also @isabellabreda.bsky.social)

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Articles

Isabella Breda: How to prepare for wildfire season in WA

1 week ago | tri-cityherald.com | Isabella Breda

May 30-ISSAQUAH - Tools leaning against a garden shed. Pine cones and wood chips flanking the house. Arborvitae providing a natural fence between neighbors. When Cat Robinson scanned these surroundings at Mary and Bob Fransen's home along the Issaquah Alps, she saw fuels for fire. Robinson, with Eastside Fire & Rescue, is trained to identify these pathways for fire and help residents reduce the risk of losing their home.
How to prepare for wildfire season in WA

1 week ago | seattletimes.com | Isabella Breda

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim and Birte Falconer, Mike and Becky Hughes, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, University of Washington and Walker Family Foundation, and its fiscal sponsor is the Seattle Foundation. ISSAQUAH — Tools leaning against a garden shed. Pine cones and wood chipsflanking the house.
Isabella Breda: Environmental groups join WA lawsuit against Trump cuts to EV chargers

2 weeks ago | tri-cityherald.com | Isabella Breda

May 22-Environmental organizations on Thursday moved to join a lawsuit filed by Washington and other states against the Trump administration's freeze of billions of dollars of funding approved by Congress to build a network of electric vehicle chargers along major highways. Congress provided $5 billion to build the network as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in 2021.
Environmental groups join WA lawsuit against Trump cuts to EV charging network

2 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Isabella Breda

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim and Birte Falconer, Mike and Becky Hughes, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, University of Washington and Walker Family Foundation, and its fiscal sponsor is the Seattle Foundation.
Wildfire season in WA: Above-normal risk in forecast

2 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Isabella Breda

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim and Birte Falconer, Mike and Becky Hughes, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, University of Washington and Walker Family Foundation, and its fiscal sponsor is the Seattle Foundation.
Trump administration pulls plug on UW climate research partnership

4 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Isabella Breda

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim and Birte Falconer, Mike and Becky Hughes, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, University of Washington and Walker Family Foundation, and its fiscal sponsor is the Seattle Foundation.
Isabella Breda: WA lawmakers slash wildfire budget in half

1 month ago | tri-cityherald.com | Isabella Breda

May 8-CAMP CAMREC, Chelan COUNTY - The last fire to burn this forest was started by drip torches. Fingers of flame ignited the underbrush last fall, clearing fuels that could supercharge a wildfire. In a tour of the burn area last week, grasses and balsamroot were sprouting, an example of a forest treated to withstand the types of blazes that could threaten lives and property.
UW climate research group braces for Trump cuts

1 month ago | wenatcheeworld.com | Isabella Breda

Potential budget cuts by the Trump administration could roughly slash in half funding for a leading Pacific Northwest climate change research group, scientists say. The scientists, with the University of Washington's Climate Impacts Group, are raising alarm and bracing for the elimination of two federal climate research programs they run from the university campus.
Trump cuts to WA disaster preparedness 'reckless,' governor says

1 month ago | wenatcheeworld.com | Isabella Breda

An effort to build levees around the coastal cities of Aberdeen and Hoquiam to protect residents from future flooding has ground to a halt after the Trump administration ended a federal grant program. Since a catastrophic storm caused flooding and landslides a decade ago, the cities have drawn up plans to build one of the state's largest pump stations and levees to hold back water in low-lying areas between the Wishkah and Hoquiam rivers. kAm%96 AF>A DE2E:@?
Trump cuts to Washington state disaster preparedness 'reckless,' Gov. Bob Ferguson says - The Daily Chronicle

1 month ago | chronline.com | Isabella Breda

An effort to build levees around the coastal cities of Aberdeen and Hoquiam to protect residents from future flooding has ground to a halt after the Trump administration ended a federal grant program. Since a catastrophic storm caused flooding and landslides a decade ago, the cities have drawn up plans to build one of the state's largest pump stations and levees to hold back water in low-lying areas between the Wishkah and Hoquiam rivers.