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Undergraduate Research: Elephants, Leopards, and Himalayan Black Bears

  Washington State University and the School of the Environment present tremendous opportunities for students seeking to expand and enrich their education through travel and…

Zombie Science

A Citizen’s Guide to Conserving the Living Dead Any good ecologist worth their salt knows that ghosts and zombies are real. If you don’t know…

In the Blink of an Eye: How Humans Shrink Animals Around the World

  If humans are good at one thing, it’s our ability to change the world, whether we intend to do so or not. Human impacts…

Wear and Tear on the Environment: Stormwater biofiltration increases coho salmon hatchling survival

  What happens to your tires after driving thousands of miles? Obviously, they eventually wear down and have to be replaced with new tires. But…

In Memoriam: Tokitae (Lolita)

[Foreword: Before we begin, we want to first acknowledge the many deaths, terrible suffering, and devastation caused by fires, storms, flooding, war, and many other…

A Summer of Heat, Flooding, Fire, and Smoke

  This summer, the dramatic summer of 2023, will go down as one of many markers of increasingly widespread and frequent effects of climate heating…

Video: Invasive Asian Clams in the Columbia River

  Video: Invasive Asian Clams in the Columbia River To view a short video followup to the stories on research being conducted by WSU School…

Video: Pygmy Rabbit Research

  Video: Pygmy Rabbit Research This summer, KCTS 9, a local affiliate of PBS, highlighted some of the research being conducted on pygmy rabbits (Brachylagus…

Palouse Country Diary: Birds of Summer and a Mirror of Life

    That’s it. Game over. Clock ran out. No matter what the annual solar cycle says, or your own internal vacation-focused clock, grain is…

SoE Science News

[image img_src="https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/2191/2022/11/SoE-Science-News-Header.jpg" img_id="9265" alt="SoE Science News" ] Today in the School of the Environment: Undergraduate Research: Elephants, Leopards, and Himalayan Black Bears Polar Bears Unlikely…