Bellamy Pailthorp
Environment ReporterBellamy Pailthorp covers the KNKX environment beat with an emphasis on climate justice, human health and food sovereignty. Bellamy likes reporting stories about how we will power our future while maintaining healthy cultures and livable cities. Story tips can be sent to bpailthorp@knkx.org.
Fluent in German, Bellamy worked in Berlin and has a masters in journalism from Columbia University. She joined KNKX (then KPLU) in 1999. From 2000-2012, she covered the business and labor beat for KNKX. Outside work, she practices yoga, enjoys tasting new foods and is frequently on the water with her rowing team.
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Harmful algal blooms often shut down ocean fisheries and recreation. University of Washington researchers have discovered a way to forecast them, up to three days in advance.
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Federal officials have released a new population estimate for eastern North Pacific gray whales. It’s about 13,000 — the lowest number since the 1970s.
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Last week the Trump administration revoked California’s rules on electric vehicles and with them, those of ten other states, including Washington.
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Total revenue from last week's auction of allowances for carbon emissions came in at more than $321 million. Since the program's start, $3.2 billion has been raised for state investment in climate.
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After an official Unusual Mortality Event was declared over, scientists expected the population to rebound. Instead, they're seeing high numbers of strandings. -
Seattle, along with other cities, is struggling to balance the need for more housing with the preservation and growth of trees that help address the impacts of climate change. -
Advocates for preventing the logging say that with all the effort and millions of dollars put into dam removal and ecosystem restoration on the Elwha, cutting these mature stands doesn’t make sense.
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New detections near Port Gamble and Whidbey Island have ecologists concerned that invasive green crabs could start establishing larger populations in Hood Canal and Puget Sound.
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A people-powered whale alert app has been helping reduce the risk of vessel strikes on whales for more than a decade. Now, an AI powered thermal camera is taking the monitoring to the next level.
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Stranding of grey whales along the west coast this year include 13 in Washington state alone, more than twice the normal average according to scientists.
