#Pacific Northwest

Getty Image / Nathan Howard/Getty Images The Pacific Northwest is suffering through the region’s most extreme heatwave that has ever been recorded. Triple-digit temperatures shattered all-time weather records is caused by a “heat dome,” which the National Weather Service called “historic and

Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama Meriwether Lewis is best known as the leader of the expedition to explore the new addition to the United States called the Louisiana Purchase. From 1804 to 1806, Lewis, with his second-in-command William Clark, traveled from St. Louis to the Pacific

Author: Emily Ludolph / Source: 99U by Behance For a skier and adventure photographer drawn to dramatic, pristine landscapes, the state of Washington is a natural fit. The words of photographer Scott Rinckenberger as told to Lauren Covello Jacobs. The Pacific Northwest is unlike most anywhere

Author: Matthew Taub / Source: Atlas Obscura Somewhere in the Haro Strait, where Washington State trickles into British Columbia, a whale poops. That waste is a scientific goldmine, but not if scientists don’t know it’s there. But if you listen close, you might be able to help them find it. An

Author: Jennifer Leman / Source: Science News Ancient pipes and pipe fragments found at five archaeological sites along the Snake and Columbia rivers in Washington contain evidence of tobacco use, new research shows. The finds suggest that indigenous people there smoked tobacco-filled pipes long