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²ÝÁñÉçÇø biologist: Loss of plant biodiversity could affect ecosystems as much as global climate change, pollution

The scientists gathered at a workshop in California knew that shrinking biological diversity affects an ecosystem's plant growth, based on the many experiments that have shown just that.
"But how big are those effects, really?" said David Hooper, a biology professor at…

Biodiversity loss from species extinctions may rival pollution and climate change impacts

Species extinction and loss of biodiversity could be as devastating for the earth as climate change and air pollution. That's the finding of a new study by a group of scientists from nine countries. The research aims for the first time to comprehensively compare the consequences of…

Scientists: Extinctions Just as Damaging as Climate Change

A new paper in the prestigious science journal Nature assesses one of the big questions in ecology today: How do species extinctions rack up compared to other global change issues like global warming, ozone holes, acid rain, and nutrient pollution (overfertilization)?

Could biodiversity loss rival impacts of climate change?
June Ross memorial set for May 12 in Bellingham
Manufacturer of the Year (Small Company)

Pro CNC got its start in 1997 when three Western Washington University graduates coming out of that school’s Vehicle Research Institute decided they wanted to design and build the next generation of energy-efficient car. To do that, they reasoned, they first needed a machine shop to make…

Klezmer and traditional jazz figure highly for singer who also teaches math at ²ÝÁñÉçÇø

By day, Millie Johnson is an associate professor of mathematics at Western Washington University, teaching such courses as linear algebra or honors calculus.
By night, and sometimes on weekends, she sings her heart out with klezmer bands What the Chelm! and Millie & the Mentshn, as…

So Much Life on a Little Patch of Earth

I’ve logged thousands of miles to catch a glimpse of one exotic creature or another, to Costa Rica to be dazzled by the bird known as the resplendent quetzal, to Hawaii to admire sea turtles, to Venezuela to spy man-eating anacondas. So it seemed more than a little odd that the one time I made a…

Students recognized at international math modeling contest
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