Bellamy Pailthorp
Environment ReporterBellamy Pailthorp covers the KNKX environment beat with an emphasis on climate justice, human health and food sovereignty. Bellamy likes reporting stories about how we will power our future while maintaining healthy cultures and livable cities. Story tips can be sent to bpailthorp@knkx.org.
Fluent in German, Bellamy worked in Berlin and has a masters in journalism from Columbia University. She joined KNKX (then KPLU) in 1999. From 2000-2012, she covered the business and labor beat for KNKX. Outside work, she practices yoga, enjoys tasting new foods and is frequently on the water with her rowing team.
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The National Science Foundation is awarding $15 million dollars over five years for a new Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center. It will focus on the potentially disastrous subduction zone off the West Coast.
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A coalition of community and conservation groups wants to stop a state logging claim near the banks of the Elwha river. They say the so-called “Power Plant” sale would compromise the high-profile effort to restore endangered salmon habitat on the river, just a decade after two dams were removed.
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People around the Salish Sea are seeing weird things in the water: big, exotic fish like Bluefin Tuna on Orcas Island and in Tacoma, six-foot-long Sunfish. These are species that normally live in warmer waters south of here.
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Another billion dollars is expected from Washington state's cap and trade system. The funds will go to programs that reduce carbon pollution and help people adapt. Some advocates say there’s one thing the state should do more to support.
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From hardscape allowances to protecting culturally modified trees, Seattle’s Urban Forestry Commission is looking at proposals to amend the new tree ordinance, which advocates say falls short of the city’s climate and equity goals.
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Federal officials want to move toward ‘climate-ready fisheries.’ Researchers are studying how things like rising temperatures and declining oxygen in ocean water will affect commercial fisheries in the future.
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An Orca whale known as Lolita — the last southern resident killer whale surviving in captivity — died recently. She was captured in 1970 in Penn Cove off Whidbey Island.
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Haze is in the forecast around the Puget Sound area lately. It's not affecting air quality much, but it is changing the colors of sunrises and sunsets. We get an explanation.
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yəhaw̓ Indigenous Creatives Collective received a $100,000 grant from the city of Seattle for food sovereignty work. The group is slowly uncovering and restoring an untamed acre and a half in South Seattle, to create space for growing food and self-determination.
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Vice President Kamala Harris touched down in Seattle Tuesday for a brief visit. She spoke at a manufacturing firm in Seattle and attended a fundraiser in the wealthy enclave of Medina, Wash.