College of the Environment
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| Postcards from Peru: One WWU student's study abroad, as told in pictures | 2024-04-11 | ||
| Pair of WWU students nominated for the state Student Civic Leadership Awards | 2024-04-10 | ||
| Higher ed has role to play in climate change solutions | Young people, including college and university students, are pelted with bad news about the world they will inherit. Vitally important fields such as ecology and environmental science paint a picture of the planet’s natural and physical systems under stress, and the negative impacts of… |
2024-04-09 | |
| Ask a scientist: Are human-derived hormones like estrogen harming fish in Puget Sound? | Hormones such as estrogens that humans create in their own bodies are entering Puget Sound through wastewater, raising concerns about their effects on fish and other wildlife. We spoke with Puget Sound Institute scientist Maya Faber about how environmental exposure to human-derived estrogen… |
2024-04-09 | |
| 2024 Scholars Week celebration is approaching: Registration begins April 22 | 2024-04-09 | ||
| Kimberly Lynn named new director of Western's Honors College | 2024-04-08 | ||
| Add wildfire, climate change to the list of Lake Whatcom worries | As for those less-than-dramatic pollution results, Angela Strecker, Western Washington University’s director of the Institute for Watershed Studies, explained that measures of phosphorus, dissolved oxygen and algae blooms were more or less stable, although phosphorus appeared to be declining… |
2024-03-28 | |
| WWU's Troy Abel named to the EPA's environmental justice panel | 2024-02-20 | ||
| Research recap: Students working on new research in anthropology and environmental sciences | 2024-01-25 | ||
| Crab DNA study examines possible distinct populations | The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe is working with a diverse group of partners to learn more about the population structure of Puget Sound's Dungeness crab by studying the DNA of both larvae and adults. (story behind a paywall, but features WWU's Jay Dimond) |
2024-01-24 |