Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim and Birte Falconer, Mike and Becky Hughes, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Martin-Fabert Foundation, Craig McKibben and Sarah Merner, University of Washington and Walker Family Foundation, and its fiscal sponsor is the Seattle Foundation.

Baby Olympic marmots are being eaten alive in their burrows. Wildflowers are shifting bloom time. Pikas are running out of cold mountain redoubts, and alpine meadows are being invaded by trees. Glaciers are melting. Seasons are changing.

Caused by climate warming, these aren’t abstract effects. The sights and sounds of our mountains that make Washington home a

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