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Stories from the EarthFix team at OPB, KUOW, KCTS 9, Northwest Public Radio and Idaho Public Television.
EarthFix is an innovative partnership of the largest public media institutions in the Pacific Northwest established to expand environmental news coverage in the region. With journalists based in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, EarthFix creates media across multiple platforms, helping citizens examine environmental issues unfolding in their own backyards and to explore how local actions intersect with national issues. All content copyright EarthFix and its stations.
EarthFix is an innovative partnership of the largest public media institutions in the Pacific Northwest established to expand environmental news coverage in the region. With journalists based in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, EarthFix creates media across multiple platforms, helping citizens examine environmental issues unfolding in their own backyards and to explore how local actions intersect with national issues. All content copyright EarthFix and its stations.
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The Trump administration decided not to ban the toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos. Records show it continues to sicken people.
The Trump administration decided not to ban the toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos. Records show it continues to sicken people.
If you’ve ever slammed on your brakes for a deer in the road, you know the heart-pumping feeling of a near-miss. Northwest drivers are getting help navigating without putting wildlife at risk.
A hiker's death led to calls for a cougar cull. But a growing body of research suggests that aggressive killing can lead to more problem encounters with humans, not less.
A hiker's death lead to calls for a cougar cull. But a growing body of research suggests that aggressive killing can lead to more problem encounters with humans, not less.
Every year, volunteers snorkel the entire Salmon River to count every single Spring Chinook and Steelhead in the name of science
It was not solely natural disaster, climate or drought. It was part of the plan.
The Oregon Bee Atlas is training volunteers to collect and identify hundreds of native bees — an important step in learning which species live here and if their numbers are declining.
Not all wildfire is a force of destruction. Many of our favorite NW plants and animals have evolved to depend on it.
Over the years, small communities in Washington have learned to live with the threat, tragedy — even the good sides — that come from fire on the land.
Our continued drive to suppress wildfire doesn’t just come at the cost of an unhealthy forest. It puts firefighters in harm’s way.And the Forest Service has begun to question whether that’s happening more than necessary.
On a handful of fires this summer, the Forest Service is testing out a new approach to try and keep its firefighters safe.It’s a team of risk management experts that pours over maps and data to figure out where firefighting efforts are actually necessary, and where they’re likely to succeed. Its goal is to minimize unnecessary risk to firefighters.
On a handful of fires this summer, the Forest Service is testing out a new approach to try and keep its firefighters safe.It’s a team of risk management experts that pours over maps and data to figure out where firefighting efforts are actually necessary, and where they’re likely to succeed. Its goal is to minimize unnecessary risk to firefighters.
New smoke management rules aim to increase amount of prescribed burns in fire-prone forests.
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