• How America’s roads alter our ecology, with Ben Goldfarb (reprise)

  A conversation with author Ben Goldfarb on how our roads impact pretty much everything in the natural world.

  • Lucy Soucek

• Japan's bear attacks: we unravel what's going on

  Bear attacks in Japan have been on the rise recently. So why is this happening? And what can be done about it?

  • Lucy Soucek
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  'All the walls are falling.' Shoreline Community College plans layoffs

  Shoreline Community College is planning layoffs as it faces a $4 million three-year budget deficit.

  • Ann Dornfeld
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  Some colleges scrap diversity questions from admissions essays. Will it change how students talk about themselves?

  Starting this year, some colleges have changed or removed essay prompts that referenced diversity from their admissions applications.

  • Freddy Monares/KNKX
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  UW sees fewer students from China, India after federal immigration restrictions

  The University of Washington had a 9% decrease in students from China and India this fall, the home countries for about two-thirds of the university’s 7,900 international students.

  • Ann Dornfeld
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  Sen. Murray defends her shutdown stance amid looming health care cost increases

  Congress is back at work after the longest federal government shutdown ever that was triggered when Senate Democrats refused to approve a spending plan amid a standoff over expiring health care subsidies. Washington Democratic Sen. Patty Murray talked to KUOW’s Kim Malcolm about what happened and what comes next.

  • Kim Malcolm
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  The story of Whatcom Creek: an explosion, a tragedy, and a rebirth

  The story of the 1999 pipeline explosion in Whatcom Creek, and how a community and a creek began to recover after seemingly irreversible devastation.

  • Lucy Soucek

• Sniffs, scratches, sights and sounds: Ed Yong on how animals sense the world

  Chris Morgan talks with Pulitzer Prize winning author Ed Yong about the astonishing ways animals sense the world around us: from birds that navigate the open ocean by smell, to penguins that sense vibrations underground.

  • Lucy Soucek
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  Seattle School Board names lone superintendent finalist, a district leader recruited from Michigan

  An experienced district leader from Michigan is set to become the next superintendent of Seattle Public Schools.

  • Sami West
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  'Ghost students' are haunting WA community colleges — to steal financial aid

  AI-generated students are taking advantage of community colleges in Washington state, filling classes, and spiriting away federal loans and grants.

  • Ann Dornfeld

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