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U.S Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, is looking for answers following recent reports from NOAA Fisheries regulators that nine killer whales were inadvertently caught and killed this year in Bering Sea

SPECIAL FEATURE - Correcting Bad Revisionist History About Ford's Multi-Fuel Model T Automobile

A lot more people are ditching gasoline for electric cars.

Films at D.C. Festival Will Focus on Labor and the Environment. What are the intersections of climate and work? How are global climate risks playing out in fields and on factory floors and being discussed in company boardrooms? As the world heats up, what jobs and employment sectors, what factory practices, what sorts of manufacturing—from computer chips to batteries to food production to fast fashion—are threatened or must change? Factors affecting work range from heat to competition for w...

The Biden administration approves a highly controversial drilling project, electric street sweepers prove that no truck is too big to be electric, and culture warriors attack environmental justice research.

SEATTLE — Blue and orange flames flicker and whir within five massive natural gas-fired boilers, visible only through hatches where coal used to be shoveled.

Boom and Bust in the Bering Sea: The Fate of Crab and Sockeye Salmon in a Changing World. The fishing boat Pinnacle makes its way through an ice floe January 25, 2022, in the Bering Sea southwest of St. Matthew Island. The Pinnacle, which is larger than most Bering Sea fishing boats, can travel through some unconsolidated sea ice, although at a greatly reduced speed. An ice floe with pieces like this can damage buoys, increasing the risk of a lost crab pot. Image by Loren Holmes/Anchorage Daily ...

Boom and Bust in the Bering Sea: The Fate of Crab and Sockeye Salmon in a Warming World. The fishing boat Pinnacle makes its way through an ice floe on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022 in the Bering Sea southwest of St. Matthew Island. Image by Loren Holmes/Anchorage Daily News. United States. As the world warms, the Bering Sea tells a story of boom and bust. The sockeye salmon runs of Bristol Bay are to be marveled. More than 78.3 million sockeye surged home last summer, filling nets and spawning grounds...

With an eye on the thousands of civilians caught in the firestorms, the book examines who built and flew the B-29s, and how the Army Air Forces came to firebomb civilian areas in 1945. An uncomfortable, important and thoughtful history by author James M. Scott, a review says.

In 1940, Seattle-based Boeing engineers designed a massive beast of an aircraft. The B-29 Superfortress — composed of 55,000 parts — had a tail three-stories high, enormous propellers and a