Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

Last weekend's heat brought the hottest June 8 in the Seattle area since 1948, with Seattle-Tacoma International Airport ...

Seattle, along with other cities, is struggling to balance the need for more housing with the preservation and growth of ...

Seattle was also one of these 13. And the strong presence in North America was important to the CDP, given that the state of U.S. politics around climate change. "Our A List celebrates cities that ...

Seattle leaders love to talk about fighting climate change. But fighting words come more easily than actually reining in the city’s carbon emissions. “The federal government has demonstrated ...

The cause is climate change. Without shoreline alterations, the Duwamish will spill through much of the neighborhood. “That’s a really amazingly short amount of time,” Ayers says. Many people in ...

Between 2016 and 2021, Seattle lost 1.7% of its tree canopy, about 255 acres (255 hectares) of trees, according to a city report blaming climate change in part. To the south, Portland, Oregon last ...

A venture called 9Zero plans to open a co-working space in Seattle where people can create community, collaborate and brainstorm climate solutions. “Climate change can be daunting to the point ...

Seattle’s power utility is already planning ahead to face the potential effects climate change will have on its ratepayers. In fact, Seattle City Light has already experienced a $30 million loss ...

The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday proposed a new ruling that heat-trapping carbon gas ...