Conflicting interests in ongoing Klamath Basin water crisis force difficult choices In 2023, the Klamath Basin enters a new era as the long-awaited removal of several hydroelectric dams along the Klamath River begins. As dam removal begins, the region fac ...
1 Feb 2023 - Melanie Henshaw
Temperatures will be especially dangerous beginning Wednesday night, when temperatures are predicted to drop to 17 degrees before wind chill, through Friday morning, when temperatures are expected to reach as high as 30 degrees Portlanders and those in th ...
21 Dec 2022 - Street Roots Staff
A major river restoration project is likely forthcoming, but fish and tribes in the basin face ongoing water and climate troubles A decades-long effort to remove four hydroelectric dams from the Klamath River may soon come to fruition. In the Klamath Basi ...
2 Nov 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
Moving Forward | What the second phase of Healthy Businesses permit program will look like Building a sense of community? Making it harder for cars to blaze through the neighborhood? Creating an almost-European vibe? As the Healthy Businesses permit enter ...
24 Aug 2022 - Henry Latourett...
Various agencies opened 24-hour cooling centers throughout the city, in addition to the numerous daytime cooling and misting centers the city and local nonprofits set up in response to the heat. Editor’s note: This story pertains to a developing situation ...
27 Jul 2022 - K. Rambo and Kanani Cortez
After a wet spring, Portland is drought-free, but that’s not the case for the rest of the state Portland is emerging from one of the wettest springs on record and heading into summer drought-free, but Oregonians outside of the Willamette Valley aren’t fee ...
29 Jun 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
One year removed from the deadly 'heat dome,' Portlanders will gather to mourn those who died — and call for better outcomes in the future Portland’s first “ Heat Week ” began during the last week of June to commemorate the 69 lives lost last su ...
24 Jun 2022 - Christine Menges
Scientists urge regulators to address marine health, sound alarm about acidification S teven Rumrill watches mass deaths take place deep under the surface of the ocean. Last summer, he watched hundreds of crabs struggle to reach a part of the ocean where ...
17 Feb 2022 - Piper McDaniel
Conservationists and scientists say ‘clearing fuel’ may be helping clear the way for historically destructive fires After forest fires burned 793,000 acres of Yellowstone National Park during a particularly dry summer marked by high winds in 1988, Tim Ing ...
17 Aug 2021 - Jake Thomas
Gov. Kate Brown called for reduction of diesel emissions in an ambitious climate order, but experts and advocates remain skeptical the state has the infrastructure to get it done A state agency is moving forward with regulations to reduce the environment ...
11 Aug 2021 - Jake Thomas