College of the Environment

In "The Three Emperors," the seventh installment of the Ethan Gage series, author Bill Dietrich presents a new adventure, as Gage has survived the naval battle of Trafalgar and must make his way from Venice to Vienna to Prague to find his ultimate goal: his family.

The executive director of the Pipeline Safety Trust will discuss the safety of the Keystone XL pipeline and other U.S. pipelines on Thursday, May 8, at Western Washington University.

The free 4 p.m. talk, which is part of the Huxley College of the Environment speaker series, will be in…

The Seattle Aquarium sits on Pier 59, above the cold, dark waters of Puget Sound. As children run inside its wood-beamed atrium, Lesanna Lahner peers into the largest display tank. A few salmon swim idly past barren rocks. "This used to be full of sea stars," says Lahner, the aquarium…

Scientists are making some headway in figuring out what is killing millions of sea stars in the waters off the Pacific coast, from British Columbia to Mexico.
While a definitive answer eludes them, researchers suggest a pathogen -- either bacterial or viral -- is responsible for the death…

This isn't breaking news, but salmon and orcas don't stop at the border. They don't show passports and clear customs or shop at the duty-free store.

The environment doesn't stop at the border and neither does the economy. A healthy economy depends on a healthy…

Have you ever held an item in your hand just before tossing it into the trash bin and thought, should I recycle this? The new dorm recycling program was created to help make this choice easy.

Recycling is good for the environment and helps reduce pollution and waste in landfills and…