Environment

Australia, New Zealand, and South America are among the hardest hit as rising temperatures could drive the extinction of one in six species worldwide.

Some shamans have turned down lucrative jobs with mining companies out of spiritual concerns, according to Jackson School student Amalia Rubin

Conservation biologist Samuel Wasser's DNA analysis helping to stop illegal ivory trade worldwide.

University of Washington ecologists are using 3-D technology to make artificial flowers, which they say could revolutionize our understanding of plant-pollinator interactions.

University of Washington ecopsychologist Peter Kahn describes our diminishing experiences with nature.

China's forest cover has seen notable progress over the past several decades. A paper written by University of Washington researchers last year is referenced.

Students learned about agroecology from the ground up—literally—as they worked with farmers in an unusual and isolated high-altitude farming community in the Upper Rio Grande.

When Frehley, a young border collie, was brought to a Seattle animal shelter, he was deemed unadoptable. Too much energy. Too single-minded. Too much to handle.

Think of it as Habitat for Penguinity. Working with Parque Nacional Galápagos, Dee Boersma is behind the effort to build nests in the barren rocks of the Galápagos Islands in the hope of increasing the population of an endangered penguin species. Boersma is a UW professor of biology and Wadsworth Endowed Chair in Conservation Science.

No need to leave campus for the farm experience. The student-run UW Farm, tucked into a third of an acre on campus, is a working farm with ties to courses in everything from biology to anthropology to American Ethnic Studies. 

Raymond B. Huey, professor emeritus of biology, discusses how humans adapt to hot weather.