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Sea-Tac Director to Speak at Western Jan. 24

Mark Reis will discuss sustainability at Sea-Tac International Airport during a presentation in Bellingham on Thursday, Jan. 24.

Reis' "Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Sustainability at Sea-Tac Airport" is part of Western Washington University's Huxley College of the…

2013-01-22
Mark Reis to talk sustainability at Sea-Tac Airport 2013-01-18
Anti-coal activist to speak at Huxley in Bellingham

Western Washington University's Huxley College of the Environment is offering a free talk by a local anti-coal activist on Thursday, Jan. 17.

Matt Krogh of RE Sources for Sustainable Communities will give his presentation, "Coal at Cherry Point: Local Battle, Global Fallout…

2013-01-16
Miles awarded $32K grant from NSF to study fallout from Hurricane Isaac power outages 2012-12-14
For Bellingham's baby boomers, echoes of the '60s protest years continue

Forty years ago I was sitting in a political theory class at Western Washington University when the professor held up the latest issue of the Northwest Passage, an alternative newspaper that had started in Bellingham three years earlier.

The cover showed four police officers standing…

2012-12-11
MSU student to use Fulbright for study of disease in Zambian wildlife, livestock

As Montana State University's lone recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in 2012, Angela Brennan is eagerly awaiting her chance to travel to Zambia to study the effects of disease on wildlife and livestock.
Brennan, a doctoral student in the Department of Ecology, said plans to…

2012-12-05
Giant Eocene bird was 'gentle herbivore', study finds

A team of researchers from Washington, US, examined tracks uncovered in a landslide in 2009.

Previous investigations have suggested the giant bird was a carnivorous predator or scavenger.

But the absence of raptor-like claws in the footprints supports the theory that Diatryma was…

2012-11-26
Eocene Big Bird Not so Scary, After All

The reign of the dinosaurs came to a catastrophic end 66 million years ago. That’s the common trope, anyway – a holdover from before we recognized that at least one feathery lineage survived and proliferated after the K/Pg devastation. We still live in the Age of Dinosaurs – a 230 million year…

2012-11-26
Nov. 30 panel discussions at WWU to focus on future of agriculture

Three panel discussions about the future of agriculture are set for Friday, Nov. 30, at Western Washington University.

Panel titles and times are:

- "The Future of Food," 1:15 to 2:45 p.m.

- "Protecting Land, Protecting Food" at 3 p.m.

- "The…

2012-11-26
Mount Baker research center selling photo calendars to raise funds 2012-11-19
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