Isabella Breda

5 days 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.

6 days 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.

3 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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:@?

3 weeks 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.