11-12: Innovation and Research

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Border traffic into Whatcom County up 11.5 percent so far this year

Canadian border traffic into Whatcom County has increased significantly so far in 2012.

The number of people traveling southbound through Whatcom's five border crossings (including Point Roberts) totaled more than 4.5 million in the first four months of the year, up 11.5 percent in…

2012-05-31
WWU professor studies nuances of walking, balance for seniors

As an athlete growing up in Eugene, Ore., it made sense for Brandi Row to earn her master's degree in exercise and movement science from the University of Oregon. Then, while working on her doctorate at Pennsylvania State University, she became interested in how exercise can help older…

2012-05-21
Is Earth Alive? Scientists Seek Sulfur For An Answer

Researchers at the University of Maryland have discovered a way to identify and track sulfuric compounds in Earth’s marine environment, opening a path to either refute or support a decades-old hypothesis that our planet can be compared to a singular, self-regulating, living organism — a.k.a. the…

2012-05-16
The language link between Siberia and Alaska

Spoken by only a few dozen people, a language uttered in river villages 3,000 miles from Alaska is related to Tlingit, Eyak and Athabaskan. This curious link has researchers wondering how people in the middle of Siberia can be related to Alaskans and other North Americans, and what it means to…

2012-05-10
Scientists: Extinctions Just as Damaging as Climate Change

A new paper in the prestigious science journal Nature assesses one of the big questions in ecology today: How do species extinctions rack up compared to other global change issues like global warming, ozone holes, acid rain, and nutrient pollution (overfertilization)?

2012-05-03
Could biodiversity loss rival impacts of climate change? 2012-05-03
Western's Jennifer Karchmer to speak on Iceland's freedom of the press May 3 2012-05-02
Huge "Structure" of Satellites Found Orbiting Milky Way

A huge "structure" of satellite galaxies and star clusters has been found wheeling around the Milky Way, according to a new study.

The discovery surprised scientists, in part because the structure might spell trouble for theories of dark matter, the mysterious, invisible…

2012-05-01
How language ties Siberians and Alaska Natives 3,000 miles apart

Spoken by only a few dozen people, a language uttered in river villages 3,000 miles from Alaska is related to Tlingit, Eyak and Athabaskan. This curious link has researchers wondering how people in the middle of Siberia are related to Alaskans and other North Americans -- and what it means to…

2012-04-30
So Much Life on a Little Patch of Earth

I’ve logged thousands of miles to catch a glimpse of one exotic creature or another, to Costa Rica to be dazzled by the bird known as the resplendent quetzal, to Hawaii to admire sea turtles, to Venezuela to spy man-eating anacondas. So it seemed more than a little odd that the one time I made a…

2012-04-24
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