Patricia Townsend, a WSU Extension specialist in renewable energy and green infrastructure, was honored this spring as part of a team of extension agents creating opportunities for sustainability and change. Townsend took part in the eXtension Foundation’s Impact Collaborative Summit this spring, as part of the National Sustainability Summit team, representing Washington State University, the University […]
For billions, the rains of the South Asian summer monsoon are a matter of life and death.
Wine and grape industry members and students are invited to a research symposium, “Climate Extremes: Is the Pacific Northwest Wine Industry Ready?” 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Friday, March 17, in the East Auditorium at Washington State University Tri-Cities.
Washington State University’s Adaptive Water Urbanism Initiative is organizing five community workshops on adapting the GBD to sea level rise, flooding, and drought. The public is invited to attend.
Climate change is already transforming agriculture in Washington. To help farmers deal with climate change, WSU scientists talk to them about ways to both adapt to changes and slow them down.
Climate change dates back to ancient times. Here’s new evidence on the timing of climate change and population collapse in Europe in the late Bronze Age.
Late in the last century scientists published reams of data about Earth’s climate derived from ice cores taken from Greenland and Antarctic glaciers. By drilling down into the ice with hollow bits (think of using a spinning pipe as a drill) workers were able to pull columns of ice up to the surface.
PULLMAN, Wash. – New York publisher Prometheus Books has just released “The Whole Story of Climate: What Science Reveals about the Nature of Endless Change” by Washington State University faculty member E. Kirsten Peters. The book challenges the idea that we must spend all our effort in attempts to somehow eliminate climate change. Instead, Peters […]
I work just a couple of blocks from a special kind of bank. It doesn’t accept money for deposit, it won’t finance a new car, and it wasn’t part of the housing bubble. This unusual kind of bank deals mostly in seeds that it preserves, sometimes propagates, and often disperses without charge to anyone who […]
Flight of the Alkali Bee Can a bee learn to fly over, instead of across, a busy highway? WSU entomologist Douglas Walsh is working with the Washington State Department of Transportation to find out. Walsh will study alkali bees and their flight around a stretch of U.S. Highway 12 in central Washington to help WSDOT […]