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Seattle Audubon hatches new name: Birds Connect Seattle

The Seattle Audubon is changing its name to Birds Connect Seattle. They want to step away from a name with a racist legacy.
- Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Spring killing: Smaller-than-a-penny Japanese beetle looms large for Northwest agriculture

As spring wakes up in Oregon and Washington, so do invasive Japanese beetles. Larvae living among the roots of neighborhood lawns become adults and get up to the surface – ready for a meal, some mating and egg laying.
- Anna King
Sunshine and warm weather arrive in Seattle, along with allergy season

The sun is peeking out for St. Patrick's day and highs Saturday are expected to top 60 degrees. But the leprechaun brought a trick with his sun-shining pot of gold. The weather is triggering the beginning of allergy season.
- Natalie Akane Newcomb
Northern and southern resident orcas hunt differently. New study could help orca numbers

According to a new study from the University of Washington and NOAA Fisheries, northern and southern resident orcas, who live in the Salish Sea have different fish hunting patterns.
- Natalie Akane Newcomb
Washington bill could help ease renewable energy development tensions

A bill in the Washington Senate could help ease local tensions over new wind and solar projects.
- Courtney Flatt
It's a good day to celebrate Billy Frank Jr.

Billy Frank Jr. led protests for tribal fishing rights across Washington in the 60s and 70s. He was arrested more than 50 times starting at age 14. And his efforts helped lead to a landmark supreme court decision that honored tribal treaty rights. It’s why today several Northwest tribes, schools and public agencies celebrate him today, which includes Washington State Parks.
- Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Kelp is having a moment

Around here, when you think forest, you think towering Evergreen trees. But an equally important forest sits within Puget Sound. The state’s kelp forests play a critical role supporting fish and sea life in the Northwest, but they’ve been on the decline for the last 10 years. Northwest News Network correspondent Tom Banse is here to talk about how the state is working to restore kelp and eelgrass along the coastline.
- Jennie Cecil Moore
This is what Washington is now charging carbon polluters

The results are in from Washington's first-ever carbon credit auction.
- Catharine Smith
'Sacred ground': Why Camp Minidoka's survivors say 'no' to this windfarm

Many Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War 2 at a federal camp in Minidoka, Idaho are opposing a wind farm project near the campsite. Over 13,000 people were imprisoned there, many were from the Seattle area.
- Natalie Akane Newcomb
Hydrogen-powered airliner makes first flight at Moses Lake

The largest aircraft yet to fly on hydrogen-electric power made a successful first flight Thursday at Moses Lake, Washington. The maiden flight of a converted turboprop airliner offered a preview of one possible pathway for how to make your future flights more eco-friendly. Hydrogen fuel is one of several options the aviation industry is testing to reduce its carbon footprint, but the technology still attracts notable skepticism.
- Tom Banse

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