It’s a botanical event more than 17 years in the making at Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium.That is where a desert-native Agave plant is blooming for the first—and only—time in its life.

The owners of a recently demolished coal-fired power plant announced the site will become a data center powered by the largest natural gas plant in the country. The Homer City Generating Station in ...

Adding live plants to your aquarium isn’t just about aesthetics, it’s about creating a healthier, more balanced environment for your fish. The right plants provide oxygen, absorb harmful ...

With a visual aesthetic perfect for anime lovers, this free Meta Quest 2 game tasks players with saving a struggling aquarium ...

At the northern end of a 1.5-mile park nearing completion—a transformation of Seattle’s downtown waterfront—a rounded structure clad in Alaskan yellow cedar has risen. Urbanistically, it is a hinge ...

and plants, representing more than 150 species. With a public garden and viewing platform on the roof, and the new Salish Steps installation, the facility is firmly rooted into the neighborhood and ...

(GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) At street level, just steps from the original aquarium building at Pier 59, a giant window called “The Oculus” sits above the main Pavilion entrance ...

Guests will come face to face with 3,500 animals and plants ... through an oculus, a circular port. Advertising Owned by the city of Seattle and operated by the nonprofit Seattle Aquarium Society ...

If you don’t recognize the name Oculus, it’s the company that kicked off the modern VR era. Facebook (now Meta) was so impressed by the Oculus Rift developer kit and sudden revival of interest ...

[Photo: Christian Belmont/courtesy Tatiana Bilbao Estudio] The aquarium has ... late last year, plants have already filled in many of its crevices and spilled over its oculus-like sky portals.

The ascent leads to the roof, where planted walkways create a ... spiral staircase that unfurls under an open oculus. It is here that the actual aquarium begins. The promenade conceived by ...