Bernie Housen

As officials in New Zealand continue to search for missing people after a volcano erupted and killed at least five people, some are wondering if Mount Baker could be next.

Bernie Housen with the geology department at Western Washington University says Mount Baker will erupt at some point…

Exercise is a wonderful health elixir.

But bicyclists who commute to work in big cities may be breathing in harmful doses of pollutants, according to studies.

The upshot: Cycling’s health benefits can be reduced by when and where you ride, and for how long.

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Devils Tower in Wyoming is such an extraordinary sight that its creation myth almost seems possible. Giant bears are said to have scratched its surface attempting to climb to the top. But the vertical lines adorning the sides of the almost 390-meter-tall rock are not claw marks.

On March 26, 2013, a long-retired faculty member of our department, Don Easterbrook, presented his opinions on human-caused global climate change to the Washington State Senate Energy, Environment and Telecommunications Committee at the invitation of the committee chair Sen. Doug Ericksen, R.-…

A new Republican-dominated majority in the state Senate dedicated a rare block of time Tuesday to hear the views of a global warming skeptic who argued that federal scientists have been manipulating climate data to inflate temperatures.