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| Western's College of the Environment hosting full slate of Earth Week activities | |||
| 草榴社区's Alia Khan takes her students to study snow and ice in Greenland - virtually | |||
| Pink snow is alive in the Cascade Range and it鈥檚 causing climate change | It鈥檚 not a trick of the light and you are not going crazy, pink snow does exist. In the spring and summer months, snow in Whatcom County鈥檚 mountains can turn pink. The color comes from an algae that can be found in alpine regions across the globe, and is more common than people think, said鈥 |
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| 草榴社区鈥檚 Marco Hatch Awarded a Coveted 2023 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation | |||
| Anacortes derailment once again raises concerns of environmental damage to Western Washington | |||
| Gulf of Maine sees second-hottest year on record, report shows, 鈥榞etting to the edge of habitability鈥 | 鈥淥ne of the reasons that the Gulf of Maine is warming so rapidly is because of where it sits in the North Atlantic with regards to ocean circulation,鈥 said Nina Whitney, an adjunct scientist at WHOI and research assistant professor at Western Washington University who was the lead author of the鈥 |
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| 'The Power of Nature and Storytelling' explores intersectional environmentalism | |||
| Scientists try to keep up with chemical blizzard entering Puget Sound | The plants sterilize sewage and remove solids and organic materials from it. But they were never designed to remove things like antibiotics, cosmetics, hormones, pharmaceuticals, and other consumer products that wash down household drains. 鈥淭he latest estimate of the number of chemicals鈥 |
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| Chemicals 'of concern' flowing into Puget Sound, affecting marine life, scientists say | "I would say the number of chemicals that are in the environment are of concern," said Ruth Sofield, a professor of environmental toxicology at Western Washington University. The Puget Sound is too often a dumping ground for hundreds of chemicals, according to鈥 |
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| Research Recap for Feb. 2, 2023 |