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Ashley Ahearn

Ashley Ahearn is the host of terrestrial, a national podcast on the environment, produced out of KUOW in Seattle. Ashley brings more than a decade of experience covering the environment at the local and national level. Her stories have appeared on Marketplace, Morning Edition, Here and Now, The World and other NPR and PRI shows.  She holds a masters in science journalism from the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California. Check out terrestrial at: http://kuow.org/terrestrial
“I don't want to have to do this,” Victoria Barrett says. “It's just I feel like it obviously needs to be done. It's frustrating... Sometimes I feel like people my age are fighting the hardest when we didn't even start this in the first place."
Global Politics
This 18-year-old from New York is suing the Trump administration over climate change
Dave Rank was the top US diplomat in China when President Trump announced he would pull the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement. His refusal to help implement that decision ended his 27 years in the foreign service.
Global Politics
How climate change and Donald Trump brought an end to this diplomat’s career
Orca leaping
Environment
Calling over boat noise is making endangered orcas hungrier
Easton Glacier, Mount Baker
Environment
How will the Pacific Northwest change when its glaciers are gone?
Calling Over Boat Noise Is Making Orcas Hungry
Scott Pattee, a water supply specialist with the National Resources Conservation Service, checks snow levels at Stevens Pass ski resort in Washington's Cascade Mountains.
Environment
Record-low snowpack in Pacific Northwest could be ‘dress rehearsal’ for climate change
What a Record-Low Snowpack Means for Summer in the Northwest
Hormone Disruptors Linked to Genital Changes and Sexual Preference
Climate Change & Pacific Northwest Glaciers
Scientists with the US Geological Survey gather samples near coal train tracks in the Columbia Gorge near Washougal, Washington. Little research has been done on how coal interacts with the environment.
Environment
Scientists dig into booming coal exports and their effects on wetlands
Mercury in Coal Dust Poses Wetland Threat
Rafting down the Unbound Elwha
BNSF train on trestle
Environment
Ex-employees claim a major US freight railroad company has ignored key safety checks
BNSF train on trestle
Environment
Ex-employees claim a major US freight railroad company has ignored key safety checks
BSNF Railways Workers Forced To Ignore Oil Train Safety
Dying sea star
Environment
What’s killing all the sea stars?
Sick Sea Stars
How to eat a Geoduck
Oil Train Danger
Pete Knutson and his son Dylan sell local Pacific salmon at outdoor markets around the Seattle area. The sign on their stall at a recent market in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood reads, “In response to multiple customer inquiries regarding the Fukushima i
Environment
Worried about radioactive ‘Fukushima’ fish in the US? Don’t be, scientists say
Sacred Grounds Versus Coal Transport
Coal Loses Ballot Test
terminal
Environment
Environmentalists and coal interests fight it out in a small Washington State election
Climate and Algal Blooms
Business, Economics and Jobs
Combating climate change by storing CO2 underground
Environment
Ghost Net Busters Dive to Remove Deadly Lost Fishing Nets
Elwha Dam Comes Down
Voices of Coal
Environment
Plan to ship Wyoming coal to Asia runs into opposition from Northwest greens
Skin Color and Vitamin D
Wave Glider
Schooling Salmon
Wave Glider
Protecting Pacific Salmon
Undamming the Elwha
Environment
“Border Security” bill would exempt many public lands from environmental regs
Wave Glider
Airline Emissions Fly High
Manure Magic
All Aboard!
Banking on Wetlands
Pumpkin Paddle
Wetland Mystery
Hormone Disruptors Linked To Genital Changes and Sexual Preference
Endangered Frogs Face New Threats
Skin Color and Vitamin D
Snow and Salt Report
War of the Sciences
Dial-A-Fish
Word from the West
Manure Magic
Lead and Violent Crime
The Joshua Tree At Risk
Carbon Cowboys
Dial-A-Fish
High Infatuation
Development’s Carbon Cost
Dioxane on the Defensive
Hospitals Buying Local
Bisphenol A on the Burner