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.

Oregon State University's "Oregon Climate Assessment" forecasts higher temperatures, more frequent and local ice storms, and melting snow packs in the next several decades of climate change's impact o

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.

Rosie’s three-point climate change plan include acting at home, meetings in class and sharing knowledge about climate change. Lanenga succeeds the 2024 kid governor, Zoya Shah, whose platform was mental health awareness.

The discovery could have implications for water users in the region as drought and extreme weather limit snowpacks, rainfall and water availability.

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.

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, according to Oregon’s 2025 climate assessment.

The 83rd Oregon legislature gets to work this coming Tuesday and there's a lot on the table for the lawmakers to consider. From dealing with the state's homeless and housing issues, to the effects of climate change to mental health.

Oregon homeowners who live in certain high-risk wildfire areas defined by the state must now meet new building and so-called defensible space codes

In a new quick-turn analysis, UCLA climate scientists found that climate change could be responsible for roughly a quarter of the extreme vegetation dryness present when the Palisades and Eaton fires began. But they say the fires would still have been extreme even without that moisture deficit.

Rosie Lanenga, a fifth grader at Riverdale Grade School, has been sworn in as Oregon's 2025 Kid Governor.