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Last week, we shared the new What's In My Neighborhood mapping tool that allows users to search for polluted properties across Washington. We received a variety of responses via Facebook.

We're cleaning up the Holcim Inc site, near the Centennial trail and a boat launch. 

Our new mapping tool helps you find contaminated sites near your home or work and see where they are in the cleanup process.

The glistenworm is a shell-less, footless mollusk that burrows into marine sediments by digging with the shield around its mouth.

More than 40 farms representing 110,000 acres in Eastern Washington are in line to become among the first Farmed Smart certified agriculture operations in the Northwest.

When disturbed, Travisia pupa, the stinkworm, as its name suggests, gives off a pungent odor similar to rotting garlic.

Last week Ecology held two public meetings on the progress of the Tacoma Smelter Plume project. Over 50 people came out to learn about yard sampling and cleanup in Tacoma neighborhoods.

A new report called the Washington Nitrate Prioritization Project identifies groundwater areas in the state that are most vulnerable to nitrate contamination.

This month’s critter looks a lot like an old fashioned-feather quill pen and is fittingly named Stylatula elongata, the sea pen.

Google Inc. will dedicate new offices next week in Kirkland. The structure occupies a formerly contaminated site, and rests on the most solid environmental foundations possible.