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Climate change can be hard to wrap your brain around. But atmospheric scientists at the University of Washington have made it possible to listen to the planet changing.

Seabirds have been washing up dead on beaches in Washington and British Columbia this summer, and scientists can't say why.

Along Hood Canal and other rural parts of Puget Sound, the owners of coveted waterfront homes keep building more walls to keep their properties from eroding. The natural shoreline is paying for it.

A panel of ocean scientists from Washington, Oregon and California said Monday that local action on the West Coast — one of the regions of the world hardest hit by ocean acidification — could soften the blow of this rapidly worsening global problem.

Member station KUCB tagged along with a meteorologist at one of America's most remote weather stations. This story originally aired on Dec. 22, 2015, on All Things Considered.

In Seattle — one of the nation's wealthiest cities — homelessness has surged over the past decade. More people are now homeless in Seattle than anywhere except New York City, Los Angeles or Las Vegas.

Even with vacancies, most Seattle shelters don't let families stay right away. A system designed to alleviate homelessness has resulted in a bottleneck that leaves families on the streets for longer.

Oil tankers bring about 15 million gallons of oil every day into Washington state. Starting Jan. 1, those ships are required to have double hulls.

A new report from Washington's landslide commission makes recommendations for improving public safety in a state that is dotted with landslide-prone slopes.

State officials adopt a more cautious approach around slopes like the one that collapsed onto the town of Oso in March. New guidelines call for more thorough geological studies before logging near deep-seated landslide zones.

Democratic senators from Oregon and Alaska are calling for a national strategy to respond to ocean acidification and protect the nation's fishing industry.

Workers at U.S. oil refineries die on the job about three times as often as their counterparts in Europe. When accidents do kill American workers, the companies they work for rarely pay a heavy price.