“Plastics Unwrapped,” Dec. 20-May 27, 2013. Humans existed without plastics for centuries, but now we rely on them to meet our basic needs. They help us stay healthy, yet they linger, in landfills for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture takes a look at our relationship with plastics, past and present.
The eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula, a finger of the southern polar continent that juts toward South America, has experienced summer warming of perhaps a half-degree per decade – a greater rate than possibly anywhere else on Earth – in the last 50 years, and that warming is largely...
In an effort to give back to the community, the UW’s District Market has partnered with the nonprofit organization Food Lifeline to donate uneaten food to the hungry.
The partnership, which has existed since February, has donated close to 2,000 pounds of perishable food thus far, or...
One cubic yard of concrete is poured for every person in the world each year, according to The Concrete Producer blog. However, until now, there has been little evaluation of its environmental effects.
The UW Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF) is shaping national policy through its recent...
The fin whale is the second-largest animal ever to live on Earth. It is also, paradoxically, one of the least understood. The animal’s huge size and global range make its movements and behavior hard to study.
A carcass that washed up on a Seattle-area beach this spring provided a reminder...
To try to save the environment, UW conservation scientists made use of one key ingredient in their research: poop.
By examining whale excrement found between Washington state mainland and San Juan Islands, researchers in UW’s Center for Conservation Biology (CCB) have found that the...
We're very pleased to announce the possible partnering of WOOF, UW Recycling, UW ESS, and the UWGP.
All groups met Friday of last week to discuss a partnership in which we recapture campus waste plastics as a means of supplying WOOF -- a group of UW engineers working with 3D printing --...
UW outcompetes PAC-12 schools
In the grand champion category comparing paper, glass and can recycling with the amount of garbage thrown away, the UW outcompeted all the PAC-12 schools entered in this year’s Recyclmania, an eight-week contest when universities and...
Dan Jaffe says he didn’t set out intending to go all rogue with his science.
“What happened is I was getting discouraged,” he says. “I was starting to wonder whether anyone would even be allowed to ask these basic questions. So I went outside the system.”
Jaffe is no anarchist, but...
Information streams live from sensors two miles below the ocean surface, gathering data for years at a time and providing a video stream accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.
After making do with battery-powered sensors that would need to be retrieved before their data could...
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