Alarmingly, about half the people exposed to wildfires in Washington and Oregon were those least able to afford to protect their homes, evacuate safely and recover.
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The largest dam removal project is moving forward on the Klamath River in California and Oregon. Tribal nations there have fought for decades to protect native fish runs and the ecology of the river.
Colorado, Washington, Alaska and Oregon all experienced big increases in both deposits and lending shortly after legalizing marijuana for recreational use.
Maine and Oregon have enacted laws that require makers of consumer product packaging to pay for recycling or disposing of it. Will other states follow?
What kind of evidence does it require to get a widely used chemical banned? A professor of medicine and former state regulator explains how the case for chlorpyrifos as a threat to public health developed.
U.S. opportunity zones can positively impact real estate development and help local communities. But to fully realize the program’s potential, it needs reform.
More than 40 fire scientists and forest ecologists in the US and Canada teamed up to investigate why wildfires are getting more extreme. Climate change is part of the problem, but there’s more.
In principle, some portion of the shoreline is public land along virtually all US coasts. But these can sometimes overlap with private property interests, creating confusion and conflict.
The US has one of the highest groundwater use rates in the world. When wells run dry, households may opt to conserve water, find new sources or sell and move.
In an era of climate change and extreme weather, a microgrid — a self-sufficient, energy-generating distribution and control system — puts communities on the path to self-reliance.
Two environmental engineers say governments need to do more to protect people from possible water contamination after wildfires.
Debating whether climate change or forest management has caused the devastating wildfires in California, Washington and Oregon is a false choice.
Relying on incarcerated workers in emergencies such as the wildfires ravaging parts of the US is a cheap alternative for states. But what protections are there for prisoners?
How climate change and other human actions have combined to create conditions for explosive wildfires in California, Oregon and Washington state.
Oregon’s experience shows that mail-in voting can be safe and secure, providing accurate and reliable results the public can be confident in.
The lawsuits filed in Portland sparked by the presence of federal law enforcement agents sent there by President Trump are a preview of the legal battles to come in cities across the US.
Tomanowos, aka the Willamette Meteorite, may be the world’s most interesting rock. Its story includes catastrophic ice age floods, theft of Native American cultural heritage and plenty of human folly.
Nonprofits and concerned residents are teaming up with the local government to solve a daunting problem in a city with the nation’s highest per-capita rate of homelessnesss.
Mayflies and stone flies are extremely vulnerable to water pollution, which has implications for the larger food chain.
Instead of suppressing wildfire, the Karuk Tribe in the Pacific Northwest is using it as an integral part of its climate change management plan. Federal, state and local agencies are taking note.
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Faculty, Graduate Program on the Environment, Evergreen State College
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Associate Professor of Sociology, School of Public Policy, Oregon State University
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Assistant Professor of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology and California Trout-UC Davis Coldwater Fish Scientist, University of California, Davis
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Associate Professor of Law, Bond University
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Professor of Criminology & Public Policy, University of Brighton
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Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics and Public Policy, Queen's University, Ontario
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Associate Professor of Law and Founding Director, Bioethics & Health Law Center, Mississippi College
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Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin
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Professor of Economics, Boston University
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Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University
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Research Associate Professor, Epidemiology, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
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Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University
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Professor of history, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of Native American Studies, University of California, Davis
