Climate Solutions

Ants — yes, ants — could protect apples, nuts, cocoa, and other beloved crops from disease and climate change.

More than half of young adults feel anxious, angry and powerless over climate change, a recent survey found. But there are ways to help turn that distress around. Here's how to give them a try.

As electricity providers in Washington scramble to find new sources of renewable energy, Skagit Public Utility District has successfully demonstrated the use of small hydro-electric turbines.

Washington state officials launched the new instant rebate program in Seattle on Thursday, saying it's part of an aggressive response to climate change.

Seattle Public Schools wants to be fossil-free by 2040. The district hopes the geothermal wells currently used to heat and cool 19 of its school buildings will be the future.

As students across the nation consider jobs that play a role in solving the climate crisis, they’re looking for meaningful climate training, including here in Washington State.

Washington state plans to conserve 2,000 acres of state forest, that would otherwise be logged, to absorb carbon dioxide. Activists want more. KNKX environment reporter Bellamy Pailthorp explains the potential of this climate solution, and the obstacles to implementing it.

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.

A chamber jazz quintet from Seattle recently took its concert featuring music about climate change on the road. The musicians say they hope their music will help people discover climate change solutions.

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.