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Huxley's Gigi Berardi pens 'FoodWISE,' new book about making healthy, sustainable food choices
Here鈥檚 how warming in the Cascades impacts the Nooksack River in Whatcom County

As the temperature of the region increases because of climate change, the snowpack is reduced to higher and higher elevations causing changes in the creeks and rivers that flow from the mountains, according to Robert Mitchell, who is a professor at Western Washington鈥

A deep-sea magma monster, Axial Seamount, gets a body scan

鈥淎 significant fraction of Earth鈥檚 volcanism happens at places like Axial,鈥 said Rubin, referring to the mid-oceanic ridges, which collectively represent a spine of volcanism stretching about 40,000 miles around the world.

But it won鈥檛 be a breeze to finish this work. Years of processing鈥

Western鈥檚 Wayne Landis Receives NSF Grant to Better Understand the Impacts of Microplastics on Aquatic Life
草榴社区 Research Team Trying to Unlock the Recycling Potential of Ocean Plastic

Western Washington University associate professor of Engineering and Design John Misasi and a team of his undergraduate students are working to understand how the world could best use these discarded plastics in the hope that proving their commercial viability could create a robust market for鈥

Rising Northwest waters bring tough choice: fight or flight

While the treatment plant on the Skagit is standing its ground, that approach won鈥檛 work everywhere.

One river to the south, Katrina Poppe and John Rybczyk sledge-hammered a white, meter-long tube of plastic into the mud.

Rybczyk sported mud boots and shorts;鈥

Old North Church, a cherished symbol, opens up about its link to slavery

That past includes a pact by Jackson and fellow parishioners George Ledain and Edward Tothill to smuggle slaves illegally from Barbados to Suriname, according to Jared Ross Hardesty, the former BC doctoral student who now teaches history at Western Washington University鈥

草榴社区's Ed Vajda to Discuss the Ancient Language Link Between Siberia and North America Nov. 8 at City Hall
草榴社区鈥檚 Stefania Heim publishes new book on Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico
草榴社区's Deb Donovan and her students fight to save the Salish Sea's pinto abalone
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