I’m going to take the opportunity to brag about our school for a moment. The UW is an incredible place to study. Not only has the London education publication Times Higher Education recently listed it as the 23rd-best university in the world, but the UW has lead the front line of increasing environmental consciousness on campuses across the United States.
University of Washington is a winner of the 2010 Green Washington Awards in the Acadamic/Government category.
Universities and state institutions are not only leaders in finding new ways to reduce environmental impact, but also serve as models for how communities and businesses can reduce their impact on the environment.
Check out a video produced by students in Evans School Professor Ann Bostrum's Climate Change Communication class in Fall 2009: "Hey World - Sign the UW Sustainability Pledge." The video was created for University of Washington PB AF 595B to increase climate action self-efficacy.
Watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uhwhXflRfU
A research group at the University of Washington will get as much as 100 million dollars to team with the federal government to study a range of environmental issues. The UW's Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean was chosen to continue working with federal scientists on climate change, fisheries and more.
From wildfires to wild flowers — Pacific Northwest forests appear to be changing. New ways of thinking and managing forest lands are needed, says forest resources' Dave Peterson, who will speak Thursday, March 11, about Climate, Forests and Future: A View from Treeline.
The presentation is part of forest resources' annual series "Sustaining Our Northwest World" and is the inaugural College of the Environment's dean's lecture. The college plans to have two dean's lectures a year in the future.
Were Washington’s senators on your Valentine’s Day list this year? University of Washington WashPIRG members hope so. On Feb. 9 and 10, WashPIRG volunteers set up a card-making shop under the Suzzalo-Allen Sky Bridge complete with valentines, glitter, glue, markers, and candy hearts to munch on.
Their goal was to get students to sign Valentine’s Day cards pledging their support for global-warming initiatives.
Earth has warmed much less than expected during the industrial era based on current best estimates of Earth's "climate sensitivity" -- the amount of global temperature increase expected in response to a given rise in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide.
In a study published online on Jan. 19 in the Journal of Climate, Stephen Schwartz of Brookhaven National Laboratory, Robert Charlson of the University of Washington and colleagues examine the reasons for this discrepancy.
Civil engineers at the University of Washington and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Seattle office have taken a first look at how dams in the Columbia River basin, the nation's largest hydropower system, could be managed for a different climate.
Ice sheets are melting more quickly and Arctic sea ice is disappearing much faster than previously projected, and significant sea level rise is more certain than ever, according to a new global scientific synthesis prepared by some of the world's top climate scientists.
Sen. James Inhofe, champion of global-warming deniers, recently declared 2009 the “Year of the Skeptic.” Sadly, in some ways, he might be right.
Recent polls indicate that skeptics are gaining ground in the battle for public opinion. Americans are increasingly unsure about the causes of climate change.