Re: “Neighborhoods pay the real cost of tree removal” (Feb. 8, Opinion): Eva Tai’s “My Take” personal essay is brilliant. As long as I am alive, the cedar in the front yard and the two Douglas firs in ...

SEATTLE — There’s a growing new fight to save two trees in Seattle’s Lake City neighborhood. The trees, an evergreen and a deciduous tree, are on what once was the backyard of a house on Hiram Place ...

Climate change shapes where and how we live. That's why NPR is dedicating a week to stories about solutions for building and living on a hotter planet. SEATTLE — Across the U.S., cities are struggling ...

It’s no secret that real estate in Seattle is both scarce and expensive. Residential developers are buying land in every nook and cranny of the city, often cramming multiple town houses onto small ...

Most homeowners assume that once they own a piece of land, everything rooted in it is theirs to do with as they please. That ...

A towering giant sequoia tree in Seattle’s Green Lake neighborhood—that could have survived for over a century—may now be removed by the city. The massive tree, believed by activists to be the largest ...

athy and Dan Robinson’s excitement about their upcoming kitchen renovation turned to puzzlement when Seattle building officials required them to count and measure each tree in their yard and submit a ...

Trees seem so calm and grounded, almost permanent. Yet a single dropped branch or a trunk leaning slightly too far can change ...