Items by Eric Wagner
Portland’s fluoridation battle shows how tricky it is to integrate science into debates that have as much to do with values as policy.
A man and his raptors take on Washington's dump scavengers.
A close look at ‘Seattle’s toilet’
State and tribes disagree over how to tackle an exotic species' takeover of a Montana lake.
These fish aren’t only in low-elevation lakes.
Sailors' journals detailing the weather of voyages past could improve the accuracy of climate models' projections of the future.
Robotic hummingbirds have got nothing on the real thing
Unraveling the mystery of the whales' steady decline.
Maria Coryell-Martin uses 'expeditionary art' to educate people about climate change.
Botanist Madrona Murphy traces long-lost edible wild plant gardens cultivated by the Pacific Northwest's Coast Salish.
Lying to rest a dispute over whether tribal reliance on fish meant they did not garden.
As their natural roosts disappeared, Vaux's swifts turned to old, brick chimneys for refuge during long migrations. Those safe havens are disappearing, too. Luckily, the swifts -- and the chimneys -- have found a champion in Larry Schwitters
A restoration effort at Fisher Slough in Washington's Skagit River Delta has encouraged cooperation between farmers and environmentalists - and might even help endangered chinook salmon.
What an unconventional journey on a cruise ship can reveal about seabirds' enigmatic lives.
Biologist Travis Booms tracks Alaska's elusive gyrfalcons.
Biologists trying to photograph wolverines see martens as a nuisance, but martens are actually pretty cool creatures themselves.
While scientists try to understand the reasons behind recent seabird die-offs, volunteers count the corpses on Northwest beaches.
The Ice Age Floods reshaped the landscape of eastern Washington -- and our knowledge of geology.
Andrew McNair, who works weekends at a computer in Olympia, Wash., is not your typical Western fire watcher.
Eric Wagner joins naturalist Robert Michael Pyle on one leg of his first-ever “Big Year” – in which he will try to see as many different butterflies as he possibly can.
