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Soot is accelerating snow melt in popular parts of Antarctica, a study finds

Soot pollution is accelerating climate-driven melting in Antarctica, a new study suggests, raising questions about how to protect the delicate continent from the increasing number of humans who want to visit.

Researchers estimate that soot, or black carbon, pollution in the most popular…

2022-02-24
What is black carbon? The latest way humans are causing changes in Antarctica

here are few places on Earth that humans haven't mucked up with the waste and pollution that comes from our …

2022-02-23
Epic Floods in Pacific Northwest Revive a Long-Running Dispute Over How to Manage a River

In November, when a string of catastrophic storms hit the Pacific Northwest, the Nooksack River flooded, submerging farming communities in both the US and Canada. Cows were swept away, and farmers raced to save them on boats and jet skis. By the time the waters subsided, thousands of farmers and…

2022-02-04
Swinomish Tribe wants to resurrect U.S. clam gardening

The practice of clam gardening is thousands of years old, but Indigenous communities likely haven’t built a clam garden in the Pacific Northwest in modern times , said marine ecologist Dr. Marco Hatch, a member of the…

2021-12-17
The world's oldest trees

WWU Professor of Environmental Science Andy Bunn and his research into bristlecone pine trees - the longest-lived trees on the planet - was featured yesterday on CBS' Sunday Morning.

2021-11-29
What toll did recent flooding take on Whatcom’s salmon?

Salmon may live underwater, but they are not immune to damage from the flooding that has inundated Whatcom County in recent days, according to local salmon experts and advocates.

“Salmon are adapted to high flows, and it’s actually a pretty important part of their life cycle,” said James…

2021-11-22
WWU’s Alia Khan Receives $1.2 million CAREER Grant from the NSF to Continue Research in the Antarctic and the Cascades 2021-10-26
Research Recap for Oct. 1: WWU gets a new Germanium detector, and inside the life of the pinto abalone 2021-10-01
Research Recap for Sept. 24 2021-09-24
Meet Western's newest NOAA Hollings scholar, Madison Gard 2021-07-28
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