King County Executive Ron Sims will consider the social, economic and health inequities of climate change impacts during the lecture “Shared Prosperity in an Age of Global Warming: King county’s Vision for an Equitable Clean Energy Economy,” Jan.
Author: Sandra Hines
Record-breaking amounts of ice-free water have deprived the Arctic of more of its natural “sunscreen” than ever in recent summers.
Managing fisheries to maximize profits got a bad name in the 1970s after an economist concluded that overexploitation, even to the point of causing a stock to go extinct, is a definite possibility when fishers are pitted against each other and are attempting to maximize profits.
“Don’t poke the ink sack.
Some Pacific Northwest salmon make one heck of a commute.
The only global-ocean climate-monitoring system — comprised of satellites and specialized floats — passed a milestone earlier this month when a UW and Scripps Institution of Oceanography expedition was in a position to deploy Argo float No.
Some salmon make one heck of a commute.
Compared to men there’s a higher percentage of women earning doctorates in biology than in most other fields of science.
Within years of its inception, UW faculty began working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore last week.
Scientists since the early ’90s have seen the potential for cleaning up contaminated sites by growing plants able to take up nasty groundwater pollutants through their roots.
Scientists since the early ’90s have seen the potential for cleaning up contaminated sites by growing plants able to take up nasty groundwater pollutants through their roots.
Priorities the Washington Department of Natural Resources might consider when spending the $70 million it has available to bolster the amount of working forestland in the state were on the agenda last month during the Northwest Environmental Forum at the UW.
This morning’s groundbreaking for the Pacific Connections Garden, the largest garden added to the Washington Park Arboretum since its founding, was preceeded in recent weeks by the moving of holly trees and shrubs — some as tall as 30 feet — and by a plant collecting expedition to Oregon’s Siskiyous, the first in a series of expeditions to bolster plant collections for the new garden.
Priorities the Washington Department of Natural Resources might consider when spending the $70 million it has available to bolster the amount of working forestland in the state were on the agenda last month during the Northwest Environmental Forum at the UW.
Loss of sea ice that is more than a year old — called perennial ice — may be the key predictor for how much Arctic ice melts each summer, a UW polar scientist says.
Loss of sea ice that is more than a year old – called perennial ice – may be the key predictor for how much Arctic ice melts each summer, a University of Washington polar scientist says.
A ghostly, mutant ratfish caught off Whidbey Island in Washington state is the only completely albino fish ever seen by both the curator of the University of Washington’s 7.
This morning’s announcement by the Joint Oceanographic Institutions concerning a $97.
An assessment of the impact of climate change on the state, being launched this week by the UW’s Climate Impacts Group for the Washington Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development (CTED), is the most comprehensive ever.
Thirty miles west of Grays Harbor, UW scientists have discovered large colonies of glass sponges thriving on the seafloor.
Thirty miles west of Grays Harbor, University of Washington scientists have discovered large colonies of glass sponges thriving on the seafloor.
Video clips of seals zipping around, a kelp crab latching onto the lens of the camera, swirling schools of silvery perch and even birds “swimming” by.
- The University of Washington has been allocated $2.
University of Washington President Mark A.
While dignitaries gathered Monday in Washington, D.
At the same time that its faculty and staff members have been helping the state look to the future concerning working forests and the potential for biofuels from woody debris, the UW’s College of Forest Resources kicked off a year-long celebration of its 100th anniversary.
Two of Greenland’s largest glaciers shrank dramatically and dumped twice as much ice into the sea during a period of less than a year between 2004 and 2005.
Climate scientists from the Pacific Northwest, many from the University of Washington, have played key roles in a major new international study that shows climate change will have serious effects on the world in the coming decades.
A history of forestry in the United States and the UW’s College of Forest Resources role during the last 100 years is the topic of a talk Feb.
In the same month that its faculty and staff members have been helping the state look to the future concerning working forests and the potential for biofuels from woody debris, the University of Washington’s College of Forest Resources kicks off a year-long celebration of its 100th anniversary.
Fishing for a salmon shark with a rod and reel would be like fishing for a marlin “times three,” according to a UW shark expert who’s witnessed their ferocity.
A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and UW cooperative institute dedicated to understanding climate and its effects is starting its 30th year with a new director.
The Atlantic Ocean doesn’t receive the mother lode of fixed nitrogen, the building block of life, after all.
A UW College of Forest Resources think tank says Washington forests are being threatened from within.
The Atlantic Ocean doesn’t receive the mother lode of fixed nitrogen, the building block of life, after all.
A University of Washington College of Forest Resources think tank says Washington forests are being threatened from within.
A heat-loving microbe capable of fixing nitrogen at a surprisingly hot 92 degrees Celsius, or 198 Fahrenheit, may represent Earth’s earliest lineages of organisms capable of nitrogen fixation, perhaps even preceding the kinds of bacteria today’s plants and animals rely on to fix nitrogen.
Researchers have discovered two genes that guide land plants to develop microscopic pores that they can open and close as if each pore was a tiny mouth.
Researchers have discovered two genes that guide land plants to develop microscopic pores that they can open and close as if each pore was a tiny mouth.