Courtney Flatt

Amidst what some researchers call a "friendship recession," a cafe in southeastern Washington is helping people make friends by hosting “speed friending.” It's like speed dating but for platonic pals.

The Goldendale Aluminum Smelter has sat abandoned on the Columbia River's banks since 2003.

In Washington state, volunteers have helped researchers by digging up mammoth bones and other ancient natural artifacts for years.

For decades, Yakama Nation gatherers say it’s been really hard to find huckleberries in a southwest Washington national forest. But tribal gatherers say things are changing.

For around 15 years, people have slowly dug up mammoth bones near the Tri-Cities. Along the way, people have made a lot of other discoveries.

Across the U.S., communities are planting fast-growing Miyawaki forests to help neighborhoods cool down and adapt to the longer, hotter summers predicted as the climate changes.

Communities across the U.S. are turning small plots of land into highly dense forests that grow quickly. Turns out these forests have roots to a decades-old planting method that originated in Japan.

The project puts the transmission line beneath the river bed to avoid the wildfire and weather risks of traditional above-ground lines.

The 117-acre project has been split into three phases. Now, crews are thinning the second phase of mixed-conifer oak forest with chainsaws and masticators, which chew through forest debris.

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