Fall 2022 – In this Issue:
Editor’s Choice: Bug Splat Ecology & Science Pizza
SoE Special Reports:
Climate Anxiety in Environmental Science Students
Today’s Lab Assignment: Take a Bath
SoE Education & Research Reports:
- Bug Splat Ecology
- Droning on in Higher Education
- Dams, Reservoirs, & Methane Emissions
- Watching the Trees Die
- Are Bears Really Carnivores?
- Dry Lightening & Western Wildfires
- Survival of Mule Deer Fawns in SE Washington
- Air Pollution from Western Wildfires
- How Cars Kill Salmon
- Generating Science Enthusiasm in High School Students
- Video Interview: Western Wildfires Affect Midwestern Severe Weather
- Tipping Points for Pacific Northwest Forests?
- Landscape Ecology & Conservation of Wild Cats and Large-Mammals
- Phantom Forests: Why Global Tree Plantings Fail
- How Heavy Is a Forest? And Why Does It Matter?
- North Atlantic Right Whale Nearly Extinct
- What is Cop27 (and why does it matter to you?)
- Sightseeing on the Road to Hell
- Past 8 Years the Hottest Ever Recorded
- 20 Climate Photos That Changed the World
- Platypus, Be Dammed
- Exploding a Carbon Time Bomb: Congo Peatlands
- Geoscience (listen): Journey to the Doomsday Glacier
- Must-Watch Video: Exploding Plants
- Epicurious? What Does 36,000 Year-Old Bison Taste Like?
- Darwin’s Orchids and Drunk Wasps
- Rediscovery of Frogs Thought to Be Extinct
- Discovery of a Living Fossil on the California Coast
- Morbid Curiosity: The Difference Between Possum and Opossum
- Are You Smarter Than a Slime Mold? (be careful how you answer…)
- Lost and Found: Rescuing a Rare Oak
- Can Bumble Bees Play Soccer?
Essays & Natural History:
Margaret Renkl – from The New York Times:
At Summer’s End, a Moment of Wild Surprise
From the WSU Arboretum:
On the Controversy Over Milkweed & Monarch Butterflies
Art / Literature / Photography
What We’re Reading (and why):
– How to Speak Whale
– Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
– Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps
– The Soul of an Octopus
– Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Photo Exhibit:
Study #23 in Mourning Doves & ‘Pigeons’
Advanced Studies (for overachievers):
Elizabeth Kolbert – Climate Change From A To Z
Bill McKibben – Dimming the Sun to Cool the Planet is a Desperate Idea, Yet We’re Inching Toward It
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