climate

Olympia, Wash., is what some call a “sea level rise city.” But elected officials there have only just begun to put a price on the cost of adaptation to climate change.

Gov. Jay Inslee presented his $187 million salmon recovery proposal after ceremonies with the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. The governor called the plan "comprehensive" and noted that it touches on all the critical aspects of fisheries conservation management: habitat, hatcheries, harvest and hydropower.

As outlandish as the killer heat wave that struck the Pacific Northwest was, it fits into a decades-long pattern of uneven summer warming across the…