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Unlike most sea urchins, which are round, heart urchins appear heart-shaped, elongate with a small depression at one end for the mouth.

We have completed a year-long effort updating the 2010 vessel traffic risk assessment. The new risk assessment is an in-depth look at ship traffic through Puget Sound

Happy World Wetlands Day! We're excited to announce that over 2,500 acres of wetlands will be conserved through this year’s National Coastal Wetlands Conservation grant awards.

This year, we’re proposing $188 million in financial assistance for 165 high-priority clean-water projects.

Ecología lanzó un nuevo programa de ayuda en Español. El programa “Dirt Alert” tiene un sitio web con una lista de más Acciones Saludables.

Ecology launched new Spanish-language outreach in Federal Way last month.

Learn about how the global climate affects water quality, see the impacts warmer waters had on Puget Sound, and compare photos from flights throughout 2016.

The black-eyed hermit is never far from home, because it carries it along. Hermit crabs find protection from predators inside empty snail shells.

The balmy spring caused snowpack to melt at record rates. In early April, the state snowpack was slightly above normal. By late May, it was less than 50 percent of normal.

Washington's 30-year-old management guidelines for commercial, marine fish farms (net pens) are getting an overhaul.