SEATTLE — Wildfire smoke is filtering in the Puget Sound basin Saturday bringing hazy views and a forecast for reduced air quality in the metro area by Saturday night. Cameras from Crystal Mountain, ...

Eelgrass, a marine plant crucial to the success of migrating juvenile salmon and spawning Pacific herring, is stable and flourishing in Puget Sound, despite a doubling of the region's human population ...

Scientists have discovered that the water chemistry in the Hood Canal and the Puget Sound main basin is becoming more "acidified," or corrosive, as the ocean absorbs more carbon dioxide from the ...

The sweet seep of autumn rain is bringing coho salmon back home to their natal streams all over the Puget Sound basin — where too often they encounter a bitter truth: pollution in a shocking 40 ...

"The spawning population sizes of Chinook salmon are dangerously below federal recovery goals and are not improving," the Puget Sound Partnership said this week in a somewhat gloomy annual report. The ...