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Power outages from severe weather have doubled over the past two decades across the U.S. as a warming climate stirs more destructive storms. The resulting blackouts can be harmful and even deadly for the elderly, disabled and other vulnerable communities.
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Gov. Jay Inslee announced on Monday several climate-related proposals for the next legislative session, including a plan to offer rebates for new and used electric vehicles, on top of the sales tax exemption that currently exists for such vehicles in the state.
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The mayors of Seattle and Freetown in Sierra Leone greeted each other like long-lost sisters on a train hurtling toward the U.N. climate conference in Glasgow. They have been bonded by years of Zoom calls and collaboration in the fight against climate change, even though they lead cities on different sides of the economic and climate divide.
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The changing climate is a topic you’d think would be front and center in local elections – especially after the heat wave that killed hundreds of people in the Northwest this summer. A professor of politics at the University of Washington noted a lack of attention to the issue – until he and a colleague pushed for a debate in Seattle.
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The extreme heat in June left many people scrambling to purchase portable air conditioners. But energy efficiency experts have two words for anyone who isn’t in a huge hurry: heat pump.
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How do you prevent deadly heat events in urban areas? Leaders in Tacoma and King County and teams of volunteers are trying to increase the tree canopy and provide cooling shade while educating the public, tearing up asphalt and, in some cases, battling decades-old racism.
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This summer's record high temperatures caught the Northwest off guard. People died on the job and in their homes and on the streets. Expert after expert told KNKX people will continue to die from conditions like this unless cities plan a lot better for extreme heat.
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This summer, as a heat dome engulfed the Pacific Northwest, at least 138 people died in Washington state. KNKX sought to learn more about those who lost their lives, at least in part, because of the heat wave in those final days in June, which experts say would not have happened without climate change.
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Hundreds of endangered northern leopard frogs have hopped into the only wild place these frogs are found in Washington.The release last week was an effort…
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Irreversible sea-level rise is among the permanent consequences of human-caused climate change. That’s one of the findings of the new report out this week…