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SoE Education and Research Reports
Silvopasture Research: Trees & Biodiversity on Washington Farms & Ranches A large portion of the world’s forests have been cut or degraded by human activity,…
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…
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…
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…
Palouse Country Diary – Birds of a Feather
The birds of spring have been migrating through the rapidly greening Palouse Prairie and Snake River Valley for many weeks now, bringing their welcome…
Photo Exhibit – Chukar
Chukar After introducing the Cascadia Field Guide to our readers, I couldn’t help but think…
In-Depth Studies
Here in the School of the Environment we always encourage people to undertake more in-depth and advanced studies whenever time and personal interest allows. We…
Bug Splat Ecology
Before we begin, we must deeply apologize to all of our colleagues in the Department of Entomology at Washington State University. We used the…
Today’s Lab Assignment: Take a Bath
Special Report on Climate Anxiety: I recently asked students in one of my senior classes to take a bath. Now you might be surprised at…
Climate Anxiety in Environmental Science Students (and what to do about it)
Special Report on Science Education: [Anya Dillard and other students in a school walkout to support the 2019 Global Climate Strike. Source: Wikipedia. License: CC BY-SA…