Stories from The Emerald Alliance

By Zan McPherson and Kelly McCaffrey September 13, 2021 Orcas rely on their main food source, the endangered Chinook salmon, to survive. Due to habitat loss, climate change, and increased pollution, it has become even more difficult for migrating salmon to...

By Tracy Stanton & Zan McPherson September 13, 2021 In April 2021, King County Executive Dow Constantine revealed a strategic initiative that, over the course of the next 30 years, will provide an intersectional approach to water protection, addressing...

By Zan McPherson August 16th, 2021 Wildfire season is here, and it’s here to stay. By that we mean that those luxurious, infamous Western Washington summers of ten years ago - without smoke, drought, excessive heat, fire risk, and never-ending burn bans -...

By Kate Yoder, Associate EditorAugust 16th, 2021 Kate, tell us a bit about your role with Grist.I’m an associate editor, which means I get to do a little bit of everything. These days, I’m mostly working on my own projects. I tend to write about climate...

By Zan McPherson & Tracy StantonJuly 15, 2021 We all know the last week of June was the hottest on record across many parts of Puget Sound. In the aftermath of this intense and deadly heat, we learned that some areas of King County can be up to 23...

By Zan McPherson & Tracy StantonJuly 15, 2021 When most Americans think of infrastructure, the first thing that usually comes to mind is large-scale transportation and civil engineering projects - highways, bridges, railways, dams and airports. These...