With few shade trees and a lot of pavement, Portland’s hottest neighborhoods are also some of the city’s poorest Portland, unlike the rest of the nation, has had a relatively cool summer this year. Even so, 2016 has so far been the hottest year on record ...
1 Sep 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe
Some timber producers say it's time for a cultural shift in how we think about logging and forests' role in the ecosystem The way Peter Hayes explains it, every time the timber industry makes a change to the way it harvests America’s forests, it ...
18 Aug 2016 - Emily Green
Oregon's progressive U.S. senator is separating himself from the pack in the fight against global warming, housing crisis, political corruption U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley has made a big splash in his eight years in the Senate. One of the Senate’s most pr ...
3 Aug 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe
Climate-change expert Katharine Hayhoe, a scientist and a Christian, is on a mission to change the minds of faith-based climate change deniers Katharine Hayhoe never goes where she’s not invited, and when she accepts an invitation, she usually finds herse ...
19 Jun 2015 - Emily Green