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

Trump's NOAA firings raise doubts for Pacific Northwest fisheries

1 week ago | savingseafood.org | Isabella Breda

April 15, 2025 — Owen Liu was hired to help solve a mystery. Fishers had been plying the Pacific Ocean in search of hake, a species making up one of the most lucrative fisheries on the West Coast. But the catch hadn’t met expectations for a decade, Liu said. Liu was tapped last year to unravel the conundrum.
Trump's NOAA firings leave Northwest workers in 'purgatory'

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. Owen Liu was hired to help solve a mystery.
WA pulls funding for Puget Sound tidal energy project

2 weeks ago | spokesman.com | Isabella Breda

The narrow channels and strong currents of the Salish Sea could provide an ideal testing ground for tidal energy. It is a promising technology. Unlike solar and wind, tides are consistent and reliable, not highly influenced by weather. Tides and currents can be forecast decades out. But these waters, among the delicate channels and bays that make up an inland sea, are home to endangered killer whales and salmon, sensitive kelp beds and treaty fishing grounds.
Isabella Breda: Tribes seek mining reforms amid ‘green’ energy rush

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

OWYHEE, Nev. - For more than a century, outsiders have come for what's on this land. First, it was for gold. Today, it's for lithium, a highly sought element in a rush for cleaner energy. Across the region and beyond, leaders of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of Duck Valley have raised alarm to share the impacts of mining on cultures, tribal communities and tribal rights.
How Sinixt people overturned their ‘extinct’ status and helped begin restoring Upper Columbia

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.
WA’s need for EVs comes at a cost for mining towns

1 month 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. THACKER PASS, Nev. — Cody Davis is part of a global energy transition.
Can the rush for clean energy overcome a legacy of pollution?

1 month 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. Jose Avila and Duglas Carmona Barajas secured solar panels to a roof in Burien.
'We don't have another 40 years': WA Ecology chief responds to federal rollbacks

1 month ago | seattletimes.com | Manuel Villa |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, 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.
Fearing Trump cuts, NOAA workers in WA hold ‘Save Our Science’ rally

2 months ago | spokesman.com | Isabella Breda

Raincoat- and boot-clad students, scientists and neighbors were among the dozens waving signs outside the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center early Wednesday. The “Save Our Science” rally, near the Highway 520 onramp, drew honks and waves from passing drivers.
Officials: WA loses access to $200M in wildfire preparedness funding

2 months ago | union-bulletin.com | Isabella Breda

Officials with Washington’s Department of Natural Resources say they are unable to access more than $200 million in federal funding for wildfire prevention and response after the Trump administration moved to freeze some Biden-era spending. DNR spokesperson Joe Smillie said Friday that purchases of some equipment to help fight fires was put on hold and that the state is waiting for a roughly $50 million reimbursement for firefighting work last summer.