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| Gene-Drive Modified Organisms Are Not Ready to Be Released Into Environment | The emerging science of gene drives has the potential to address environmental and public health challenges, but gene-drive modified organisms are not ready to be released into the environment and require more research in laboratories and highly controlled field trials, says a new report from鈥 |
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| Huxley鈥檚 Wayne Landis Part of 15-Person NAS Panel Researching the Science and Ethics of Gene Drives and DNA Manipulation | |||
| New institute at 草榴社区 focuses on health of Salish Sea | As the new Salish Sea Studies Institute gets rolling at Western Washington, Wayne Landis is certain of one thing: It will not be creating studies that collect dust on a library shelf. 鈥淲e won鈥檛 be doing research just because it鈥檚 interesting,鈥 says Landis, a professor of environmental鈥 |
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| Despite mercury, South River activities are OK | Standing ankle-deep in the South River, Kadrin Anderson watched as her 2-year-old son grabbed thick rocks out of the cold riverbed before heaving them back into the water. Anderson, who is five months pregnant with her second child, lives in Staunton and is a science teacher at a local鈥 |
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| Western Washington University professor completes study of mercury contamination in South River | For the past five years, Wayne Landis, director of Western Washington University鈥檚 Institute of Environmental Toxicology and professor of environmental sciences, has worked to understand how the mercury in the South River affects humans as well as the fish and animals that live in and along it.鈥 |
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| Western鈥檚 Wayne Landis Completes 5-Year Study of Mercury Contamination in Virginia鈥檚 South River | |||
| Names announced for annual faculty, staff awards | |||
| A bird鈥檚 eye-view on dwindling numbers | The bird-counters stood in the windy bow chattering into headsets and scanning the Strait of Juan de Fuca with binoculars. 鈥淪coters,鈥 Sherman Anderson said. 鈥淭hree of them. At 11 o鈥檆lock. Look like surfs.鈥 鈥淢arbled murrelets,鈥 he added seconds later. 鈥淚 see two.鈥 Inside the boat鈥檚鈥 |
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| Once-common marine birds disappearing from our coast | The bird-counters stood in the windy bow chattering into headsets and scanning the Strait of Juan de Fuca with binoculars. |
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| The mysterious decline of Puget Sound herring | Pacific herring might be the most popular dish in Puget Sound. The small silvery swimmers are called 鈥渇orage fish鈥 not because they鈥檙e rummaging for food, but because just about everything wants to eat them. |