@evanbush

Reporter @nbcnews. Covering science and climate. [email protected] / DM for Signal/ cell. Previously @seattletimes.

 Seattle, WA
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What’s it like inside the National Weather Service right now? My colleagues @evanbush and @ChaseCainNBC got a rare look inside one local office. They found dedicated people committed to the mission but an office that is unquestionably understaffed. nbcnews.com/science/science-…

Tired in Tornado Alley

A crucial National Weather Service office, battered by cuts, is trying to put on a brave face as tornado season peaks.

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The Trump administration’s slowdown in science funding has left U.S.-based scientists and researchers scrambling to find homes for promising work that could lead to medical treatments and cures. Now, many are looking abroad. nbcnews.com/science/innovati…

The best and brightest young scientists are looking beyond the U.S. as cuts hit home

Top scientists are cutting staff at their labs. Postdocs are leaving the country. Here's how the Trump cuts are playing out at the University of Washington.

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Funding for the University of Washington’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center’s expires at month’s end, amid an unprecedented stall in federal research funding. Patient care, long-term studies and 4,000 brains donated for research hang in the balance. nbcnews.com/health/health-ne…

One of the country's leading Alzheimer's projects is in jeopardy

A pause to NIH funding has researchers scrambling for contingency plans at the University of Washington’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. The center’s brain bank is preserving more than 4,000...

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There hasn’t been a worse time to be a coral in recent history. In April, NOAA declared the world’s fourth mass bleaching event - one that continues today and is growing. (1/)
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10 years ago today, I was working a weekend shift @seattletimes when word came in of a landslide near a small town named Oso. It turned out to be the deadliest landslide in U.S. history. It also became an exhibit for why local journalism matters in a time of crisis. 1/
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“You ever feel helpless, totally helpless? We’re throwing everything we have, and it’s continuing to beat us down.” Masterful piece on Maui firefighters' desperate quest to save Lahaina from last month's catastrophic wildfire, via @jonschuppe nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fir…

Fighting ‘the beast’: Inside the desperate quest to save Lahaina

As firefighters raced to hold back wind-whipped flames, they faced near-death escapes, blinding smoke, car-melting heat — and a battle they couldn’t win.

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NEW After Lahaina barely averted catastrophe from wildfires in 2018, Maui residents raised concerns about lack of warning sirens, clogged evacuation routes, power-line risks & other issues. But officials didn’t learn the lessons, some now say nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mau… w/ @evanbush

Maui dodged catastrophe in wildfires five years ago but missed an opportunity to prevent future...

After fires in 2018, residents raised concerns about clogged evacuation routes, power line risks and failures to sound emergency sirens. “Everything we told them was completely, 100 percent ignored,”...

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The story of two Maui survivors and the fire station that never was nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tri…

The story of two Maui survivors and the fire station that never was

Joseph Pluta and Rick Nava said a 2018 brush with disaster served as a wake-up call to the devastation possible from increasingly destructive wildfires. But money for a new station was hard to come...

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Are you a scientist who has been following the superconductor news/efforts to replicate? If so, I want to talk! DM are open
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Terrible news. Craig's writing is sharp and immersive. And I won't forget how accessible and kind he was when I was in my early 20s and bumbling around the Seattle Times. What a loss for Nat Geo.
Craig Welch@CraigAWelch28 Jun 2023
My new National Geographic just arrived, which includes my latest feature—my 16th, and my last as a senior writer. NatGeo is laying off all of its staff writers. I’ve been so lucky. I got to work w/incredible journalists and tell important, global stories. It’s been an honor.
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A warming climate has melted three glaciers on Mount Rainier, the tallest volcano in the lower 48 states — more evidence of the rapid worldwide decline of mountain ice. nbcnews.app.link/1YsJYDb0PAb
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Three of Mount Rainier's glaciers have melted away – yet another sign of mountain ice's rapid, worldwide decline. The decline of Rainier's glaciers is accelerating. nbcnews.com/science/environm…

Three of Mount Rainier's glaciers have melted away

Glaciers around the world are on a path of prolonged decline, a trend driven by the human use of fossil fuels and the accumulation of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.

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Kevin Collier has remained steadfast on what is among the most widespread and destructive issues facing local institutions: Ransomware.
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Are you required to work outdoors? Are you working outside in the heavy smoke that's affecting the Eastern U.S. and other parts of the country? I'd be interested in hearing about your experience for a story I'm working on. [email protected] / DM for my cell
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new apple just dropped seattletimes.com/seattle-new…

New fruit alert! Meet WA’s freshest apple

Researchers invited growers to taste and learn about the new apple variety. “I’m interested to see where it goes in the future,” one grower said.

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BREAKING: Supreme Court rules in favor of Idaho landowners, puts new limits on the scope of Clean Water Act jurisdiction over wetlands: nbcnews.com/politics/supreme…

Supreme Court delivers blow to wetlands protections in win for Idaho landowners

Idaho couple Mike and Chantell Sackett have fought for years with the federal government over whether land they own includes a federally protected wetland.

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Important work from @BenjaminGoggin.
Ben Goggin
@BenjaminGoggin25 Apr 2023
NEW: A 13-year-old was groomed publicly on Twitter by an adult for months. Despite the parents' efforts to intervene, Twitter and police failed to prevent a tragedy. The boy was abducted, taken across state lines, and repeatedly sexually assaulted. nbcnews.com/tech/social-medi…

A 13-year-old was groomed publicly on Twitter and kidnapped, even after his parents warned author...

The abduction came after a series of missed opportunities in which Twitter and law enforcement failed to effectively intervene.

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Quite the story here.
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NEW For nearly 20 years, the murders of women & girls haunted the Northwest until DNA breakthroughs led to Gary Ridgway's arrest But the long-told narrative that it took advances in science to catch the Green River Killer is false My story, via @NBCNews nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gar…

How missed evidence helped a serial killer evade capture for nearly two decades

Tiny paint spheres helped snare serial killer Gary Ridgway after at least 49 murders in Washington. The evidence was on his first victims, records show.

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Moon time! nbcnews.com/science/space/mo…

Should the moon have its own time zone?

The European Space Agency said Monday there is a need to establish some synchronicity in how we tell time on the moon as many countries race to explore it.

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The number of confirmed Chinese spy balloon flights over the United States will likely go up as analysts review past sightings of unidentified objects in the sky. my latest w/@KenDilanianNBC
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How many Chinese spy balloons flew over the U.S.? nbcnews.com/politics/nationa… via @dandeluce

How many Chinese spy balloons flew over the U.S.?

As analysts review past sightings of unidentified balloons and other objects, they will likely find some were Chinese spy flights over U.S. territory, lawmakers and experts say.

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