Merriam-Webster dictionary defines potlatch as: A ceremonial feast of the American Indians of the northwest coast marked by the hosts lavish distribution of gifts or sometimes distribution of property ...

New research from the Pacific Northwest Blue Carbon Working Group shows that forested tidal swamps store more carbon than any other coastal ecosystem on the West Coast of the United States and Canada.

A major earthquake along a West Coast fault could have catastrophic consequences across coastal Washington, Oregon and northern California. Running offshore from northern California to British ...

More than 17,000 people in Oregon, Washington and California could almost instantly be living in a floodplain, the researchers found. If the once-every-500-year Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake ...

A satellite image shows Tropical Cyclone Errol off the north coast of West Australia around 10.30am on Wednesday. Source: Supplied / Bureau Of Meteorology A powerful tropical cyclone has formed in ...

A nightmarish scenario for the Pacific Northwest has gotten a dramatic update. Researchers have long warned that a stretch of coast in Oregon and Washington state is capable of producing an ...

Source: Bureau of Meteorology. “From Thursday Errol is expected to turn southeast towards the coast and peak in intensity as a severe tropical cyclone,” the Bureau said in a statement.

Tropical Cyclone Errol is about 500km northwest of Broome and is beginning to track towards the WA coast. The system intensified overnight to a Category 4 - the second-highest classification ...

which determined that his device last connected to a tower near the U.S. Navy’s Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station Guam on the island’s northwest coast, Muir said. “The search for ...

If the once-every-500-year Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake doesn’t do enough damage to the coastal Northwest on its own, frequent and widespread flooding from rising seas that follows will ...

A subpopulation has taught itself to feed along the Northwest coast, not even bothering to make the long migration between the Arctic and Mexico. Others, called Sounders, tuck into Puget Sound to ...