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, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON STATE — A marine push is on the move for western Washington: cool ocean air will fill into the Puget Sound basin into Wednesday morning, bringing us back to more familiar temperatures for ...

SEATTLE — On board the King County research vessel known as "SoundGuardian," oceanographers work to get a deep understanding of Puget Sound that’s not possible to get onshore. “Puget Sound is a really ...

The National Marine Fisheries Service ("NMFS") proposes to designate critical habitat within the Puget Sound/Georgia Basin for three species of rockfish, including the endangered Distinct Population ...

Snowpack in the North Cascades is at 49% of normal for this time of the year, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Washington Water Supply Outlook Report. Though early January ...

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 ...