Litigants try to pin climate damages on fossil fuel corps with a novel method of attributing blame

Amid fire season in the Gorge, a legal game of chicken over safety funding is playing out between government agencies

The Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Headquarters would be closed, Pacific Northwest Research Station would move to Fort Collins, Colorado.

A Washington House amendment could dissolve the decades-old, bi-state commission that manages the Columbia River Gorge

A Washington House amendment could dissolve the decades-old, bi-state commission that manages the Columbia River Gorge

A study finds trees’ ability to migrate as the climate warms could depend on beneficial fungi

The president wants to circumvent environmental regulations to expand timber production, something sought by homebuilders and the construction industry.

The agency has sought to minimize environmental oversight and used authorities critics say incentivize the logging of older trees   Who profits? The Forest Service says this commercial logging opera...

The Pacific Northwest’s once-prevalent tidal forests are mostly gone. But what remains stores an important secret New world: A manmade "beaver dam analog" (foreground) and dead Sitka spruce trees are...

Faced with widespread tree die-offs, scientists are racing to determine the upper thermal limit of the world’s trees.

A new study also says climate change is making it harder to escape drought even as winters bring lots of precipitation Can't get enough: Rylee Buckley, 17, fills a water container with a neighbor's h...

The Pacific Northwest’s once-prevalent tidal forests are mostly gone. But what remains stores an important secret New world: A manmade "beaver dam analog" (foreground) and dead Sitka spruce trees are...