Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project illuminates the impacts of heat waves, drought, wildfire and flooding, and examines government and industry actions, to help the public better understand how greenhouse gas emissions are changing our lives.
It's monsoon season in Arizona, but other factors also contributed to the dramatic and deadly flash flooding in the Grand Canyon.
A new study highlights the life-saving role of air conditioning. However, it also heats up the planet and taxes our electrical grid, scientists say.
Summer 2026 is on track to surpass the country’s average temperature record set during the notoriously hot Dust Bowl summer of 1936.
Over the next six years, the Northwest needs to add as much new power as Oregon has today, according to draft power plan.
Washingtonians displaced by wildfires had another option for free short-term accommodations: Airbnb, through its nonprofit Airbnb.org.
Walla Walla’s drinking water supply has been threatened by the Paradise Fire burning in the city’s watershed.
State regulators are drawing up options while fear of data centers, including their potential to strain the electrical grid, is spreading rapidly.
Much of Washington is on fire, and businesses serving the region around Lake Chelan, a tourist destination, are watching their revenue wither.
Vlad Popach admitted to damaging or cutting down more than 140 trees. Then his luxury home sold for $1 million over asking price.
When a beach closes to shellfish harvest, it may have been this lab that found something was wrong.
The weekend brought a “one-two punch” of lightning followed by gusty winds that could fan new starts and cause rapid spread of existing fires.
New tsunami modeling shows what Washington should be ready for, if a magnitude 9.2 earthquake hits along the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone.
After hitting permitting snags, a controversial battery project near Snoqualmie is taking its application to the state level.
The judge ruled that Grant County had the right to seize land to build power lines. They are planned to power data centers in Quincy.
Two previous attempts to site large battery facilities in King County failed. Now this project faces new roadblocks.
Decaying electrical cables, buried in the 1960s to beautify some of Seattle’s wealthiest neighborhoods, are the cause of the city’s long power outages.
It will be some time until the Little Spokane River Valley resembles itself again. The area was burned by one of three major fires in...
The defunct and leaking pulp mill was once the largest employer in Cosmopolis, but now it's deteriorating and its chances of reopening are dimming.
This has been the busiest fire season in recorded history in the Northwest. Fire crews and many others are pushing through with little rest.
The National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning for parts of the Olympic and Cascade Mountains Thursday afternoon through 9 p.m.