Oregon’s newest kid governor wants to the state to focus on addressing climate change. That’s the platform on which Rosie Lanenga, a fifth-grader at Portland’s Riverdale Grade School, was elected by her peers from across the state.

The report found that Oregon's average annual temperature increased by 2.2 degrees over the last century. It also indicates the state could become 5 degrees warmer by 2074. This report found that besides warming, Oregon is prone to more drought and less snow due to a changing climate.

Conflicts of interest between NW Natural and a number of government bodies and nonprofits were analyzed in a new report from the Pennsylvania-based nonprofit climate group F Minus and the Oregon-based nonprofit climate advocacy group Breach Collective.

Oregon is getting hotter for everyone, according to a new report, but it's not affecting all Oregonians equally. Why it matters: The sixth Oregon Climate Assessment was released last week, finding that the state has warmed by 2.

The state is headed for longer and more severe annual droughts during the summer and an increase in heavy winter rains as opposed to snow, the report said.

Catlin Gabel's Environmental Action Team created a tennis-court-sized forest on campus in 2022, planting 600 native flowers, trees, and plants.

The Seventh Oregon Climate Assessment from state and federal scientists and researchers evaluates the what the future could look like based on increasingly precise forecasts.

The increased threat of wildfires and potential damages to timberlands from drought, fire and smoke are expected to reduce timber prices in Oregon, Washington and California in the coming decades,

High taxes are hurting job growth in Portland and chasing wealthy people out of town. Despite those aggressive levies, many government services are poor, in part because specialized taxes aimed at girding for climate change, getting kids into preschool, and helping the homeless have, at various times, gone unspent.

more rain and less snow under warming average global temperatures due to human-caused climate change. That’s one conclusion in the 314-page Seventh Oregon Climate Assessment, which was published ...

Rosie Lanenga is a 5th grader at Riverdale School in south Portland. She was sworn in on Thursday at the State Capitol in Salem after being elected by other fifth graders across the state. Rosie's three-point climate change plan include acting at home,

From international students to asylum seekers, the new administration’s plans could affect tens of thousands of people in the state