The Washington State Department of Commerce and the City of Seattle this week allocated close to $75 million in funding for community-led clean energy projects and climate-related job training programs.… Read More
Hundreds of Amazon employees walked out of the office in Seattle this week — gathering between the company’s towers while holding signs, participating in chants, and listening to speakers urge… Read More
Some Amazon employees in Seattle and other offices around the world walked out in protest Wednesday, urging the company to take bolder climate action and to reconsider its return-to-office policies.… Read More
Amazon shareholder resolutions related to warehouse working conditions and the company’s response to labor unions each won 35% of the vote at its annual meeting this week, according to detailed… Read More
Amazon shareholders have submitted 18 resolutions for consideration at its May 24, 2023, annual meeting — seeking to hold the company accountable in areas including the climate, workers’ rights, racial… Read More
Nori, a Seattle startup that sells carbon credits to individuals and businesses to offset carbon emissions, laid off 10 employees last week, co-founder and CEO Paul Gambill confirmed. The cuts… Read More
A year after forcing an independent review of Microsoft’s sexual harassment policies, a majority of investors followed the board’s recommendations to reject all six shareholder proposals at the company’s annual… Read More
Business, governmental and environmental leaders from Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia met at the U.S.-Canada border this week to plan the next steps in the quest to become the world’s… Read More
BLAINE, Wash. — Wildfire smoke was hanging over the U.S.-Canada border in the distance as regional leaders from both countries arrived here Monday, an appropriately ominous backdrop for a conference… Read More
Amazon has applied for a trademark on the phrase “Pledge Passport,” with a description that hints at plans for a new online community, news portal, and marketing website with a… Read More
Nori, a Seattle startup that sells carbon credits to individuals and businesses to offset carbon emissions, raised $7 million in a Series A round led by M13. Toyota Ventures, the… Read More
Amazon is taking plastic liners, bubble bags, and some of the consumer guilt out of grocery deliveries. The company says it has created new packaging for cold and frozen foods… Read More
This whole metaverse thing hasn’t turned out exactly the way Seattle novelist Neal Stephenson thought it would when he came up with the idea 30 years ago. Back then, Stephenson… Read More
It was really nice to be back. The GeekWire Summit returned to Seattle and took a page out of our shared reality, going hybrid this week with an in-person and virtual… Read More
Updated with details of settlement and statement from former employees. Amazon has reached a settlement with two former employees who criticized its position on climate change and conditions inside its… Read More
Seattle is scorching. The heat is so bad that Amazon on Monday opened up one of its buildings at the company’s headquarters to the public as a “cooling center.” Kanishka… Read More
As the Seattle area braces for snow later this week, the mountains around the Pacific Northwest have already seen sizable accumulations this year. Tracking that snow depth has been made… Read More
Amazon’s Climate Pledge is taking on a higher profile, with its name on a Seattle sports arena, and more than a dozen new companies on its list. Microsoft, Unilever, Neste,… Read More
Telecom giant Verizon, tech powerhouse Infosys, and Lysol and Calgon parent Reckitt Benckiser (RB) have become the first global companies to join Amazon in the Climate Pledge announced by the… Read More
Over the past two decades, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given out $53.6 billion, most of it seeking to improve global health and U.S. education. In a new… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Apple doubled down on artificial intelligence and boosted its presence in Seattle with the acquisition of Xnor.ai, an Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence spinout… Read More
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft says it will be carbon negative by 2030, removing more carbon from the environment than it emits each year, and will remove enough carbon by 2050… Read More
Puget Sound — Washington’s inland sea — is a mysterious place. It’s the southern-most fjord in the lower 48 states. It’s fed by rivers that create shallow, mucky tideflats. In… Read More
Earth Day is this Saturday, and Seattle is sure to be an explosion of energy. The annual celebration is all about paying respects to our natural environment and learning about… Read More
Badlands National Park tweeted the inconvenient truth about climate change today, despite the Trump administration’s crackdown on environmental outreach. And the Twittersphere went wild. The South Dakota park’s staff typically… Read More
The latest update on Arctic climate shows that temperatures at the top of the world are increasing at twice the global rate, setting an assortment of records and near-records. “Rarely… Read More
One of NASA’s longest-running citizen science programs isn’t just for kids anymore: A newly released app called GLOBE Observer can turn any smartphone user into a cloud researcher. And we… Read More
Today Venus is a hellish planet with a crushingly dense atmosphere of carbon dioxide, but billions of years ago, it could have had habitable surface temperatures and a watery ocean.… Read More
It’s been a year since NASA unveiled the first image of Earth’s sunlit side captured by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, or DSCOVR, and to celebrate the occasion, you can see an entire year’s… Read More
Tiny bubbles that were trapped inside 2.7 billion-year-old rocks have led scientists to conclude that Earth’s atmosphere was less than half as dense as it is today – which runs counter… Read More
