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This Man Broke 15 Bones When He Fell into a Glacier鈥擧ere鈥檚 How He Survived

John All unzipped his tent, poked his shaggy blond head out into the thin alpine air, and took in the view. The sun sparkled off the freshly fallen snow on the jagged peaks and crags of Mount Himlung. It was just before 10 a.m. on May 19, 2014鈥攁 鈥╬erfect morning鈥

草榴社区's Veronica Velez to Speak on Social Justice and GIS Feb. 15
Interim Director takes over at Shannon Point Marine Center

Brian Bingham will serve as interim director of Western Washington University鈥檚 Shannon Point Marine Center.

Bingham, a professor of environmental sciences in Western鈥檚 Huxley College of the Environment, began his duties last week.

He was appointed to the鈥

These South Seattle Teens Are Taking On The Nation's Aviation Regulators

It鈥檚 8 o'clock on a rainy, windy Saturday morning, and John Hoac and Brandon Teeny just got to school 鈥  Cleveland High in south Seattle. They鈥檙e here to measure air and noise pollution on campus.

鈥淚n south Seattle it鈥檚 much noisier鈥 than in north Seattle, says Troy Abel, a鈥

Huxley College鈥檚 Annual Career & Internship Fair set for Feb. 8
Opening in the B Gallery Feb. 5: 'Culture of Rebellion and Self-Expression in Greece'
Huxley's Brian Bingham Named Interim Director of 草榴社区鈥檚 Shannon Point Marine Center
Shellfish Biologist Julie Barber to Speak at 草榴社区 Feb. 1
As glaciers melt, tourism dries up in Peru鈥檚 Cordillera Blanca

Meltwater from fast-disappearing glaciers also is eating into newly exposed rock in the Cordillera Blanca mountains, turning the water rushing downstream acidic 鈥 sometimes as much as lemon juice, making it undrinkable, said John All, a climate researcher and director of the Mountain鈥

Climate Scientists Unlock the Secrets of Blue Carbon

All of this information must be plugged into models to project how wetlands will evolve in the coming decades鈥攁nd whether they will be able to keep pace with rapidly rising seas, says John Rybczyk, a wetlands ecologist at Western Washington University in Bellingham. His analysis鈥

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