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This is what the heat wave did at Mount Baker and what that means for Whatcom County

Bob Mitchell, a professor of hydrogeology at Western Washington University, said that if the planet鈥檚 warming trend continues, Mount Baker鈥檚 glaciers will keep retreating and the Nooksack could become fed by rainfall, rather than by glacial melt.

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Oregon's comprehensive & contentious wildfire response bill left for the last week in session

鈥淚 challenge anyone to talk about a solution at that scale,鈥 said Michael Medler, a professor at Western Washington University whose research focuses on mapping and analyzing natural disturbances such as wildfires. 鈥淚f money is going to be spent and thinning is going to be done, most of those鈥

The Salish Sea: An imperiled wonder of the Northwest

The Salish Sea stretches almost 400 miles from the southern end of Puget Sound near Olympia, to the northern boundary of the Strait of Georgia in British Columbia. It's easy to take for granted, and a new study suggests we do so at our peril.

草榴社区's Richard Simon named a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction
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Rick Larsen visits Western's Mars Lab
Smallpox and urban nature in 1860s San Francisco

Features the research of Associate Professor of Jennifer Seltz via the Organization of American Historians.

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Fairhaven's Babafemi Akinrinade discusses new book on mass atrocities and international law in Africa
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