Alex Baumhardt
Oregon Capital ChronicleAlex Baumhardt covers education and the environment for the Oregon Capital Chronicle. Before that she was a national radio producer focusing on education for American Public Media for four years. She has reported from the Arctic to the Antarctic for national and international media, and from Minnesota and Oregon for The Washington Post.
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More than 350 apple, pear and cherry packers at three facilities in the Columbia River Gorge will decide this week whether to unionize.
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Researchers at Oregon State and three Northwest tribes say removing Klamath River dams will flush out hot spots of bacteria and parasites harmful to fish.
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An updated inventory shows the area has more than 50 ice patches that no longer qualify as glaciers while several have disappeared entirely.
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The operators of Winchester Dam near Roseburg face more than $134,000 in fines for water violations on top of $27.6 million for killing lamprey.
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New state data shows nearly 40% of Oregon students missed 16 or more days of school during the 2022-23 school year.
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The deaths of more than 700 West Coast gray whales since 2019 is likely the result of low food supplies caused by a lack of sea ice in the Arctic.
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Federal officials have ordered testing water for 29 PFAS-type chemicals and lithium, but the agency lacks regulations on what states should do with most results.
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Water shortages in Oregon coastal cities could be prevented if clear-cutting forests around watersheds was eliminated, environmentalists say.
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A team of Oregon State University researchers were recently awarded $2.5 million to study the attitudes and feelings coastal residents have about potential offshore wind energy projects.
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At a renewable hydrogen conference in Portland, leaders in Oregon and Washington said low-emissions hydrogen is needed to meet the region's climate goals.
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About one-third of forests across 80 drinking watersheds serving coastal cities have been cut during the last 20 years, NASA found.
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A plan to protect threatened and endangered species in Oregon’s Western state forests by limiting some logging will move forward for now, despite a recent attempt to make last-minute changes that could have further delayed it.