Oregon’s newest kid governor wants to the state to focus on addressing climate change. That’s the platform on which Rosie Lanenga, a fifth-grader at Portland’s Riverdale Grade School, was elected by her peers from across the state.
Rosie’s three-point climate change plan include acting at home, meetings in class and sharing knowledge about climate change. Lanenga succeeds the 2024 kid governor, Zoya Shah, whose platform was mental health awareness.
Oregon is getting hotter for everyone, according to a new report, but it's not affecting all Oregonians equally.Why it matters: The sixth Oregon Climate Assessment was released last week, finding that the state has warmed by 2.
Oregon State University's "Oregon Climate Assessment" forecasts higher temperatures, more frequent and local ice storms, and melting snow packs in the next several decades of climate change's impact o
Conflicts of interest between NW Natural and a number of government bodies and nonprofits were analyzed in a new report from the Pennsylvania-based nonprofit climate group F Minus and the Oregon-based nonprofit climate advocacy group Breach Collective.
The increased threat of wildfires and potential damages to timberlands from drought, fire and smoke are expected to reduce timber prices in Oregon, Washington and California in the coming decades, according to Oregon’s 2025 climate assessment.
The effects of climate change are expected to bring more freezing rain and severe ice storms to the Willamette Valley, the foothills of the Cascades and the Columbia River Gorge in the next 50 to
The Seventh Oregon Climate Assessment from state and federal scientists and researchers evaluates the what the future could look like based on increasingly precise forecasts.
Rosie Lanenga, a fifth grader at Riverdale Grade School, has been sworn in as Oregon's 2025 Kid Governor.
The main topics Kotek touched on were homelessness and housing supply, mental health and addiction, funding education and fighting climate change.
The threat of future wildfire risks are expected to continue driving down costs as timberland owners and buyers anticipate increased risks due to climate change, Oregon State University rural ...
In November, fifth-generation Klamath County farmer Dave Noble got a letter in the mail, crumpled it up and threw it into the trash can. Noble, like other landowners in the high desert community of Bonanza known for its cattle,