Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

Last weekend's heat brought the hottest June 8 in the Seattle area since 1948, with Seattle-Tacoma International Airport ...

Seattle, along with other cities, is struggling to balance the need for more housing with the preservation and growth of ...

We can’t have all three. Not in equal measure. Right now, trees are slowly losing. But with sufficient incentives in place, ...

The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday proposed a new ruling that heat-trapping carbon gas ...

A venture called 9Zero plans to open a co-working space in Seattle where people can create community, collaborate and brainstorm climate solutions. “Climate change can be daunting to the point ...

That disaster woke up residents and union members to how deadly climate change can be. Although Seattle had passed climate action legislation in 2019, it became clear to Hasegawa and the union ...

The lawsuit alleges that oil giants were liable for Julie’s death and accuses them of a decades-long campaign of deception about the risks of burning fossil fuels.

Julie Leon died of hyperthermia in Seattle on June 28, 2021 — the hottest day in the city's history. A lawsuit claims she was ...