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• Is Thwaites Glacier Doomed? Scientists Race Against Time to Find out | Public Radio International
  How quickly will Antarctica's massive Thwaites Glacier melt, and what will that mean for global sea levels and coastal cities? Researchers recently spent several weeks studying ... - Read More

• How Fast Will the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreat?
  Eric Steig has a commentary in Science about a new study from JPL on modeling ice sheets. The results show that feedbacks between glacier retreat and the solid Earth may slow ice ... - Read More

• Humanity Hit Fast Forward on Geological Time, and There's No Rewind | Popular Science
  Without much effort, humans can warm the atmosphere, turn rainforests into deserts, and bleach coral reefs. Now, according to a study published April 15 in the Proceedings of the ... - Read More

• Historic Logging Site Shows First Human-caused Bedrock Erosion Along an Entire River
  

  Geologic time is supposed to be slow, and the most solid object should be bedrock. But new University of Washington research upends both concepts: Effects of logging show that ... - Read More

• Rapid Warming in Northwestern Canada
  Eric Steig & Spruce Schoenemann (now at the U. Montana) co-authored a paper with the U. Toronto's Trevor Porter, showing recent warming in the Yukon has surpassed anything in the ... - Read More

• Glacier Growing: Melting Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland is Growing Again, a New NASA Study Finds | CBS News
  In 2015, it lost a piece of ice the size of Manhattan. But now a major Greenland glacier that was one of the fastest shrinking ice and snow masses on Earth is growing again, a ... - Read More

• Students Launch High-altitude Balloon into Stratosphere | Bend Bulletin
  A group of home-school students got to see the effects of low air-pressure and radiation after they sent a weather balloon into the stratosphere, with a little help from NASA and ... - Read More

• New Signs on State Highway 530 | KUOW
  Since the Oso landslide 5 years ago, a state joint commission has issued recommendations that could include creating a landslide hazard and risk mapping program. David Montgomery, ... - Read More

• Explosion in Finley Quarry Registers on Earthquake Sensor | Tri-City Herald
  A seismology sensor picked up an explosion that shook the ground south of Kennewick at 8:47 a.m. Thursday morning. Amy Wright, a research scientist with the UW's Pacific Northwest ... - Read More

• North Dakota Site Shows Wreckage from Same Object That Killed the Dinosaurs
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• The Tibetan Plateau is More Recent Than Previously Thought
  A new study published this week in Science shows that the Tibetan Plateau is much more recent than previously thought. Assistant Professor Alexis Licht from ESS co-authored the ... - Read More

• Learning from the 2001 Nisqually Earthquake | Q13 FOX News
  There is something about earthquakes that has always intrigued UW Earth and space sciences professor Harold Tobin. - Read More

• UW Professor Part of Team Researching Earthquakes in Japan | Q13 FOX News
  Harold Tobin, director of Pacific Northwest Seismic Network and a UW professor of Earth and space sciences, just came back from a two-month research trip primarily on board a boat ... - Read More

• Rattlesnake Ridge Landslide Slows As Close Monitoring Continues | The Yakima Herald
  The Rattlesnake Ridge landslide has slowed its descent down the ridge's western slope from a peak speed of 1.6 feet per week in the early months of last year to 0.7 foot per week, ... - Read More

• 14 Percent Chance of Megaquake Hitting Seattle, Experts Say | KOMO
  There's a 14 percent chance of a magnitude 9 Cascadia earthquake hitting Seattle in the next 50 years, the U.S. Geological Survey estimates. Alison Duvall, principal investigator ... - Read More

• An Ominous (?) Lull in Earthquake Activity
  The last decade seems to be a lull in earthquake activity in the Pacific Northwest according to an opinion piece published in Seismological Research Letters by Research Professor ... - Read More

• Pacific Northwest in an Earthquake Lull, According to New Study | KING 5
  A new study out just this week suggests the Pacific Northwest may actually be in the middle of an earthquake "break" of sorts. Stephen Malone, professor emeritus of Earth and ... - Read More

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