Stories from The Emerald Alliance
Read our latest stories about local conservation issues, initiatives, and the people who shape them.
Diving Into King County’s $9B Clean Water Healthy Habitat Initiative
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 everything from forest management to stormwater runoff to...
Western Wildfires: Indigenous Knowledge, Watershed Impacts, and Moving Toward a Resilient, Climate-Ready Land Management System
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 - are a thing of the past. This is a really hard...
Q&A with Grist: Covering Climate in 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 change as it relates to language, culture, and history — some...
Seattle and King County Release New Research on Local Urban Heat Islands
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 degrees hotter than other areas on hot days Areas with hotter...
Rethinking Infrastructure to Include Natural Spaces
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 kinds of projects were essential to the country’s economic...
New Research Reveals Inequitable FEMA Natural Disaster Funding
A recently released New York Times article, titled Why Does Disaster Aid Often Favor White People?, sheds light on federal funding inequities in natural disaster recovery. While researchers don’t think FEMA is intentionally discriminatory, systemic inequities are...
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