The New York Times- 

​REDMOND, Wash. — Taking a page from Jules Verne, researchers at Microsoft believe the future of data centers may be under the sea.

Microsoft has tested a prototype of a self-contained data center that can operate hundreds of feet below the surface of the ocean, eliminating one of the technology industry’s most expensive problems: the air-conditioning bill.

​Issaquah Reporter-

So far, it appears to be a solid return year for the rare, fresh-water salmon swimming back to their spawning grounds in Sammamish and Bellevue. Likely 4,000 kokanee, a species closely related to the sockeye salmon but which only live in Lake Sammamish, will have returned to familiar breeding streams by spring, estimated David St. John, coordinator and chair of the Lake Sammamish Kokanee Work Group. 
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These numbers would make this year’s return the third highest in the last two decades, he said.

Alaska Dispatch News-

The ice floating on top of the world covers pretty much the entire Arctic Ocean in midwinter. By late summer it shrinks to half that much. If trends continue, by midcentury the summer ice may take up less space than Japan.

As the Arctic Ocean becomes more blue, it absorbs much of the sun's heat that it once reflected with great efficiency. This warmer ocean would quicken the melt of the Greenland ice sheet, which would lead to sea level rise. It might encourage wacky weather patterns all over the globe.

Seattle Times-

Data is flowing from an ocean-bottom observatory off the Pacific Northwest coast that was the brainchild of a UW oceanographer, and the first results are explosive.

The idea was hatched in a bar more than two decades ago.

University of Washington oceanographer John Delaney and a colleague were nursing cocktails and venting their frustration with the traditional approach to studying the underwater world.

Seattle Public Utilities is taking a new and experimental approach to improving the health of Seattle’s biggest urban stream.

Swift and green, the Cedar River is alive, both on the surface and below.

A little-known wilderness teems just out of sight, in the river below the river — the saturated soils, gravel sand and rocks under and along the river’s main channel. This is the so-called hyporheic zone: a realm where functions vital to the overall health of a stream and even the watershed take place.