Every time we do a load of laundry, tiny fibers of polyester escape from our clothes and slip down the drain. These ...

Harbor porpoises, easily seen from shorelines around the Salish Sea, are telling an encouraging story of environmental ...

With the Salish Sea visible to the west, more than 200 people packed the Edmonds Waterfront Center auditorium March 12 to learn about how a well-trained dog nose and killer […] ...

Wednesday morning revealed some interesting news regarding our environment and the health of whale populations. According to the Pacific Whale Watch Association and other local research organizations, ...

Marine life researchers are tracking a mysterious pod of orcas recently spotted moving through the Salish Sea.

ORCAS ISLAND, Wash. — Researchers on Orcas Island stumbled on a bizarre discovery Wednesday morning, after finding a five-and-a-half-foot-long bluefin tuna washed ashore on Crescent Beach. So, what’s ...

The first humpback whale calf of the 2025 season has arrived back in Salish Sea waters, according to the Pacific Whale Watch Association (PWWA). The calf is believed to be the eighth calf of a whale ...

The Salish Sea Early Music Festival will present Renaissance Psalms, Irish Baroque and Folk at 2 p.m. Sunday at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1020 Jefferson St., Port Townsend.

The baby, which is thought to be between four to five months old, was seen in the Haro Strait north of San Juan Island on Wednesday and again on Thursday. The calf was seen alongside its mother, ...

The soupfin shark (Galeorhinus galeus), also known as the tope shark, is a slender, medium-sized shark found in temperate and subtropical waters worldwide, including the eastern Pacific, Atlantic, and ...

All that glitters is not gold. Sometimes, it’s bioluminescent. Every summer, when dinoflagellate plankton bloom throughout the Salish Sea, water glows an electric blue-green. But there’s a critical ...

Along the shores of the Salish Sea, textures are everywhere—seaweed tangled in the tide, stones worn smooth by water, the strange geometry of coral and barnacles. Those details are finding their way ...