Stories from The Emerald Alliance

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...