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For decades, volunteers have been the foundation of efforts to protect Washington's Pacific coast from marine debris. And they're still going.

Washington-based nonprofit EarthGen originally focused on a green school certification program. But teachers asked for more: help addressing climate change and environmental injustice in the classroom.

Graduating from college comes with its own unique set of challenges. Add a global pandemic, impending recession, and the looming consequences of climate change, and it becomes another beast altogether. Here's how four University of Washington seniors are thinking about the future as they enter their graduating year.

Seattle Pacific University’s Queen Anne campus sits relatively quiet, as students have packed their belongings and gone home for winter break. However, the campus remains littered with evidence of the ongoing movement led by students in support of LGBTQ+ students, staff, and faculty members.

Each year, the University of Washington accepts thousands of transfer students. Three students describe the route that brought them to UW and how attending university at a later stage benefitted them, despite the challenges of the transition.

Austen Unbound is an improvisational play put on by Book-It Repertory Theatre in Seattle showing at the Center Theatre until Dec. 18. Based on the work of Jane Austen, every show is unique, with each being the first and last time that the specific play is performed.

Although the immediate threats of the smoke and flames from the Bolt Creek Fire have subsided, what comes next is worrying emergency agencies throughout Washington: an elevated risk for debris flows and landslides on the land left parched by the fire.