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The U.S. EPA recently awarded funding to 42 student teams to pursue projects that deliver sustainable, alternative approaches to address environmental problems as part of its People, Prosperity and Plant (P3) program. Several of selected teams’ projects focus on bioenergy. Each team is eligible…

Watermelon snow is neither a tasty treat nor a hoax.
Algae and bacteria that thrive in cold conditions can tint snow with a splash of pinkish-red at certain elevations.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the strange phenomenon not only resembles the…

A marine invertebrate expert will kick off the 2014-15 Discovery Speaker Series with a program Thursday on sea star wasting disease.

Presented by the South Sound Estuary Association, the free six-part series brings experts to the South Sound to talk about issues…

When you boot up Eidolon, you are plopped directly into a vast polygonal forest, somewhere between Bellevue and Olympia, with zero explanation. There’s no stage-setting, no tutorial, nothing. It’s just you and the “post-human” wilderness expanding in all directions around you. Your only clear…

The U.S. Drought Monitor has declared much of California to be in a state of "exceptional drought."

According to the Western Regional Climate Center in Reno, Nev., 2013 was California's driest in 119 years of records, and Los Angeles and other cities around the state…