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Five WWU grads receive nationally recognized River Management Society credentials
WWU researchers document 93% historical loss of persistent, old-growth grasslands in the San Juan Islands
Inevitable or preventable? The wild west of AI use at WWU

In one classroom at Western Washington University, a professor is teaching a class of students how to “vibe code” their own artificial intelligence agents. In another, a professor has moved coursework offline and is printing out readings to discourage student use of AI. 

Explore, restore and celebrate the Sehome Hill Arboretum at Arboretum Day, May 30
Community film screening of “Tainted Gold” explores resistance and environmental justice in the Ecuadorian Amazon
WWU Environmental Studies grad student models potential habitat for highly endangered local butterfly
Winter Environmental Speaker Series co-presented by the College of the Environment and the Salish Sea Institute
The island’s foxes have adapted, and are important to our local ecosystem

These issues are not new, and the island’s foxes were the subject of considerable separate research by Pillow and wildlife ecologist Gregory A. Green.

Green, a professor at Western Washington University, collected and analyzed island fox scat samples for DNA tests to determine the island…

Major ‘megafires’ are now primed to ignite across the US. All it needs is a spark

“What we are doing is changing the fire return intervals,” says Michael Medler, a professor of environmental studies at Western Washington University. “If you take a bunch of 500 year fire return interval areas in the West side and turn those into 100 year fire return intervals, you may still…

Students start a mini forest

Other cities in the U.S have used the Miyawaki Method to grow their urban tree canopy cover. In fact, students at Western Washington University in Bellingham planted a mini forest using the method two years ago.

Students working in the university’s

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