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Every summer, in forests and woodlands across the North American continent, cicada nymphs dig their way up from the underground tunnels where they spend the bulk of their lifecycle, to shed their skin one final time and emerge as adult insects. Adult cicadas live for only a short while, and during this brief stage their
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There is no place on Earth quite like Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. Winds coming in off the Pacific dump vast amounts of rain here, making the place a true temperate rainforest and giving rise to some of the biggest trees on the planet. Though it has endured decades of logging, the peninsula is one of the
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This week, I traveled to Central Washington while doing research for a story I’m working on that has to do with the sagebrush stepped ecosystem. It was a welcome opportunity to re-experience this remarkable plant and animal community, which is one of the most biodiverse and threatened in all of the Pacific Northwest. While old-growth
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Beginning at least as early as 2013, sea stars up and down the West Coast began succumbing to a mysterious disease that became known as sea star wasting syndrome. Afflicted sea stars would appear to deflate, losing limbs and eventually dissolving into a pile of goo. It sounds like a gruesome way to die–and the
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Few places have played a more important role in the generation of the modern climate movement than Vermont’s Middlebury College. It was in 2005 that a group of Middlebury students, many of whom were in a class climate change and social movements taught by Professor Jon Isham, founded what was then known as the Sunday
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I recently had the privilege of talking with several activists who were involved in one of the most exciting forest defense actions I’ve heard about happening in the Pacific Northwest in quite some time. Read on for their inspiring story! Earlier this year, seven activists entered the site of a proposed timber sale in Washington
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While working on my latest story for Columbia Insight, I talked to folks who are or have been directly impacted by the wood biomass industry. I learned about the devastating impact biomass companies like Drax and Enviva have had on forests in the Southeast. I heard the concerns of people in the Washington communities of
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I wrote this piece for Waging Nonviolence after learning about the great work students at the University of Florida are doing to push back against the extreme agenda of the DeSantis administration. Read on to be inspired by how young people in red states are fighting for the climate! The University of Florida made history
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Rachel Carson’s name is legendary in environmental circles–and for good reason. Carson’s 1962 book, Silent Spring, sounded the alarm about the hazardous effects of pesticides such as DDT, and is widely credited with helping spark the modern environmental movement. The book came out at a time when Congress and the White House were far more
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The Samish Flats in Skagit County are one of Northwest Washington’s premiere destinations for seeing birds in winter and early spring. Thousands of snow geese, mallards, pintails, green-winged teal, American wigeons, and both tundra and trumpeter swans spend the winter in the wetlands and fallow farmlands of this area, in some cases feeding on leftover
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Nick Engelfried 