PULLMAN – Advances in productivity over the past 30 years have reduced the carbon footprint and overall environmental impact of U.S. beef production, according to a new study presented today by a WSU researcher. Capper In “Comparing the environmental impact of the US beef industry in 1977 to 2007,” assistant professor of […]
PULLMAN – There really is a balance of nature, but as accepted as that thought is, it has rarely been studied. Now WSU researchers, writing in the journal ‘Nature,’ have found that more balanced animal and plant communities typical of organic farms work better at fighting pests and growing a better plant. […]
VANCOUVER – The Sahaptin-speaking Indian people of the Columbia River Basin were hunters and gatherers who survived by virtue of a detailed, encyclopedic knowledge of their environment. Eugene Hunn examines their ethnobiology and cultural ecology in his book, “Nch’I-Wána, the Big River: Mid-Columbia Indians and Their Land,” and in a lecture on the same topic […]
PULLMAN — Didemnum sea squirts don’t look scary. But the yellow blobs that are showing up on rocks and lobster traps in Puget Sound and the Hood Canal have biologists plenty worried.Native to Europe, the colonial creatures lack natural predators in North America. Unnoticed and unopposed, they can spread unchecked, eventually smothering shellfish beds and […]
Going from “rot to watt,” or turning farm waste into electricity, is the goal of a Washington State University (WSU) project that has just received a $100,000 boost from the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology). WSU will use the money to finish building a portable anaerobic digester that turns farm waste, manure and household garbage […]
Scientist and author David Suzuki, who is described as a conscience on the global environment, will deliver the annual Lane Family Lecture in Environmental Science at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13, in Todd Auditorium. Suzuki’s presentation, “Ecology vs. Economy: Setting the Real Bottom Line,” is free to the public. A reception will follow. The winner […]
The WSU Steffen Center, run by the Department of Natural Resource Sciences, is 58 acres of wildlife facilities, small forest plantations, wetlands, uplands, specialized planting areas as well as greenhouses, laboratories and shops. This beautiful facility, located on the east edge of the Pullman campus, is the site of many of the preliminary atmospheric studies […]
Washington State University Vancouver has received a $50,000 science fund to focus on the ecology and conservation of Northwest butterflies and their prairie habitats.Officially titled the “WSU Vancouver Science Fund for Ecology and Conservation of Northwest Butterflies and Their Habitats,” the fund was donated by Stuart and Sharon Shultz. “It is our hope and expectation […]