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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Kelvin waves carry heat that expands water and brings potential for higher sea level rise, more flooding and coastal erosion. -
As Canada moves forward with a project to bring crude oil from Alberta to a new deep-water port south of Vancouver, leaders in Washington worry about impacts on the Salish Sea.
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From conservation to sharing to storage, farmers, fisheries and cities are finding solutions through a Yakima Basin plan amid Washington’s fourth consecutive year of drought. -
University of Washington researchers found that coyote density in Seattle was nine times higher than in the wild. -
Initiative 2066 sought to protect access to natural gas and would have targeted plans for the state’s largest utility to transition away from natural gas.
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Political and economic leaders say Puget Sound is losing its competitive edge. The Partnership for a Competitive Puget Sound wants to help it compete for jobs and business. -
President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency wants to eliminate required public notice and comment periods for projects it deems "minor sources" of pollution.
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Washington Public Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove and state forester George Geissler reflected on lessons so far from one of the most intense wildfire years on record. -
State wildlife officials believe based on the the necropsy of the whale that it was alive when struck by a vessel that pushed it into the Tacoma port.
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Washington state officials say “deteriorating conditions” surrounding huge amounts of hazardous chemicals pose an unacceptable threat to the community and the environment.
