Unlike other coastal areas, the Pacific Northwest has largely escaped the impacts of rising sea levels caused by climate change. That's because of the area's geology. The coastal Pacific Northwest is ...

The underwater volcano, Axial Seamount, off the coast of the Pacific Northwest is heading to eruption for the first time in a ...

The mammals' return to the region represented a conservation success story, but their appetite for endangered fish is ...

Gray whales, a signature of the Washington coast, are dying by the thousands, victims of declines in Arctic sea ice.

An underwater volcano in the Pacific Northwest is showing signs it may erupt for the first ... volcano about 300 miles off the Oregon coast and nearly 4,900 feet below the ocean. Scientists at UW's ...

A major earthquake in the Pacific Northwest could sink land and expand flood zones, putting thousands more at risk.