Clouds start to build in the early afternoon and the air becomes sweet with the promise of rain. The monsoon season is ...

The idea here is to create prime habitat, as work proceeds to remake this creek more like it used to be, in an effort to help ...

EVERETT — Anna Kagley was working at a federal lab in Seattle in 1989 when the Exxon Valdez tanker spilled some 11 million ...

The crisis in question? Flooding — driven by rising tidal water, low atmospheric pressure, rainfall, and other factors, according to a recent Seattle Times report. And experts say it's getting worse.

The remote and rugged Klamath River in Oregon and California, one of the mightiest in the American West and an ancient lifeline to Indigenous tribes, is running free again, mostly, for the first ...

Have you ever wondered what it feels like to stand under a sky that suddenly turns into a river? For millions living along the West ... Read more The post What Atmospheric Rivers Mean for the West ...

The result of the increase, the simulation predicted, could be that the frequency of atmospheric rivers over Antarctica doubles by the end of the century, with the precipitation that these events ...

Snapshot of the simulated landfall of an atmospheric river along the west coast of North America on February 11, 2020. Credit: DOE Office of Science, Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM ...

More information: Mariana J. Webb et al, Wet Antecedent Soil Moisture Increases Atmospheric River Streamflow Magnitudes Nonlinearly, Journal of Hydrometeorology (2025). DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-24-0078.1 ...

Police rushed the crowd, tackled some protesters and made arrests. Two people are arrested during an anti-ICE protest in downtown Seattle on Wednesday, June 11, 2025.

SEATTLE (KOMO) — A day of demonstrations at the Henry M. Jackson Federal building in downtown Seattle ended with protesters removing and burning American flags Tuesday. The protests started ...

More information: Michelle L. Maclennan et al, Rising atmospheric moisture escalates the future impact of atmospheric rivers in the Antarctic climate system, Communications Earth & Environment (2025).