The UW’s first ever Sustainability Summit Wednesday, Oct.
Author: Sandra Hines
A new buoy designed to collect information in ice floes and open ocean is being air dropped today into the Arctic Ocean today.
It just got easier to pinpoint biological hot spots in the world’s oceans where some inhabitants are smaller than, well, a pinpoint.
It just got easier to pinpoint biological hot spots in the world鈥檚 oceans where some inhabitants are smaller than, well, a pinpoint.
Much of the problem of dealing with high-level nuclear waste — from both defense wastes and spent fuel from commercial nuclear power 鈥� is political and social, yet the search to date for workable solutions has been dominated by technological remedies, says Thomas Leschine, a 91探花professor of marine affairs.
Tropical forests — and not previously cleared land, as some have contended — were the primary source of new agricultural land in the tropics from 1980 through 2000, according to a paper published online in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Tropical forests — and not previously cleared land, as some have contended — were the primary source of new agricultural land in the tropics from 1980 through 2000, according to a paper published online this week in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Journey 300 miles off the Washington-Oregon coast and dive nearly a mile deep into the ocean as scientists and 20 students use underwater robots to explore, map and sample methane ice deposits, an underwater volcano and seafloor hot springs spewing water up to 570 degrees F.
Journey 300 miles off the Washington-Oregon coast and dive nearly a mile deep into the ocean as scientists and 20 students use underwater robots to explore, map and sample methane ice deposits, an underwater volcano and seafloor hot springs spewing water up to 570 degrees F.
A climate report just out, that’s different from other climate publications because it’s based on observed data and not computer models, says 10 climate indicators all point to marked warming during the past three decades.
A prize claimed by renowned conservationists such as David Attenborough and directors of some of the world’s largest botanic gardens has been awarded to Estella Leopold, a 91探花professor emeritus of botany, forest resources and quaternary research.
The most sophisticated array of instruments ever put in Washington waters will be deployed on a buoy and Seaglider this week off the coast.
People who fish for a living pursue top profits, not necessarily top predators, according to the first-ever analysis of worldwide catch and economic data for the past 55 years.
People who fish for a living pursue top profits, not necessarily top predators, according to global catch and economic data since the 50s.
Scientists learn about plankton growth in the mid-ocean, which accounts for a fifth of the CO2 taken from the atmosphere by world’s plants.
Find out Friday, June 18, what 91探花scientists learned from their instruments and being on board a sailing ship that traveled 28,000 miles, all the way around North and South America.
In nature, ultraviolet radiation from sunlight is not the amphibian killer scientists once suspected.
A scientist known internationally for research on climate and ecosystems — and who has a track record of getting wide-ranging groups of experts to focus on environmental issues — has been named the inaugural dean of the UW’s College of the Environment, now in its first academic year.
A scientist known for climate and ecosystem research is the inaugural dean of the 91探花鈥檚 College of the Environment.
In nature, ultraviolet radiation from sunlight is not the amphibian killer scientists once suspected.
WHAT: Seattle’s first-ever bioblitz gets underway Friday afternoon with volunteers looking for as many birds, plants, lichens, amphibians and other species as possible in the Washington Park Arboretum during a 24-hour period.
Seattle’s first-ever “bioblitz” gets under way this month, and naturalists, kayakers and other volunteers are needed to look for as many birds, plants, lichens, spiders, mollusks, frogs and other species as possible in the Washington Park Arboretum during a single 24-hour period.
鈥淏iobBlitz鈥� volunteers will look for as many birds, plants, spiders and other species as possible in a 24-hour period in the arboretum.
Eight individuals, groups and projects were recognized on Earth Day as the first-ever winners of Husky Green Awards.
Whether forests are dying back, or just drying out, projections for warming show the Pacific Northwest is becoming primed for more wildfires.
Whether forests are dying back, or just drying out, projections for warming show the Pacific Northwest is primed for more wildfires.
The corner of the Washington Park Arboretum at Arboretum Drive and Lake Washington Boulevard is being remade this year with trees and other plants native to Chile as part of the ongoing Pacific Connections Garden project.
Microeconomists are wrong about specific things.
Faculty members from Oregon State University and University of Arizona and a lead scientist for the Nature Conservancy are finalists for dean of the College of the Environment and will visit campus this week and next.
As biologists and ecologists propose ever-larger conservation areas in the tropics, ones that encompass multiple countries, social scientists say it’s local people banding together with their community leaders who ultimately determine the success or failure of such efforts in many parts of the world.
As large conservation areas are proposed in the tropics, social scientists say it鈥檚 local people who determine the success of such efforts.
Eight public school students, working with the UW-based SoundCitizen organization, have launched what is probably the nation’s first effort to sample plasticizers in marine waters.
On the marine microbial stage, there appears to be a vast, varied group of understudies only too ready to step in when “star” microbes falter.
On the marine microbial stage, there appears to be a vast group of understudies only too ready to step in when
When scientists confirmed in October that they had detected the first rocky planet outside our solar system, it advanced the longtime quest to find an Earth-like planet hospitable to life.
If the orbit of the newly discovered planet is not almost perfectly circular, then the planet might be rocked fierce volcanic eruptions.
For the first time scientists have seen molten lava flowing from a deep-ocean seafloor volcano.
A Web tool can generate color maps of projected temperature and precipitation changes using 16 of the world’s most prominent climate-change.
Starting Monday a part of the Burke Gilman Trail across from Hec Edmondson Pavilion will be closed, signaling the start of construction of the long-awaited Sound Transit light-rail station.