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• Jeff Bezos Pledges $10 Billion to Fight Climate Change -- How Should He Spend It? | KUOW
  Kim Malcolm talks with David Hyde about Jeff Bezos' $10 billion pledge to combat climate change. Two UW professors, Aseem Prakash (political science) and Eric Steig (Earth and ... - Read More

• Canoeing to Work: Floods Bring Chaos, Renewal to Snoqualmie Valley | KUOW
  The Snoqualmie Valley typically gets about one major flood each winter, according to the Snoqualmie Valley Preservation Association. So far this winter, there have been five major ... - Read More

• Earthquake Experts Lay out Latest Outlook for Seattle's 'Really Big One' | GeekWire
  Earthquake experts say current building codes don't reflect the riskiest features of the Seattle area's geology -- but the outlook for survivability looks a lot better if the ... - Read More

• As Landslides Close Roads, Washington's Remote Towns Deal with Isolation | Crosscut
  Washington's rain isn't just gloomy -- it's creating landslides that cut off rural communities. And as the climate warms, scientists warn they could get more frequent. Guillaume ... - Read More

• The Antarctic Peninsula's New Heat Record Could Soon Be Broken | National Geographic
  Experts expect to see more extreme warming events in the future, raising alarm bells about the future of the world's largest frozen landmass. Peter Neff, a postdoctoral researcher ... - Read More

• The Mystery of Superbolt Lightning | Inside Science
  While studying space plasma physics, Robert Holzworth, professor of Earth and space sciences at the UW, and his team needed to keep track of lightning strikes around the world and ... - Read More

• Researchers at AAAS to Discuss Latest Science on Cascadia Earthquake Hazards
  

  Substantial damage to Seattle's Pioneer Square can be seen in this photo of the aftermath of the 2001 Nisqually Earthquake.Read More

• Throwing Ice Down an Ice Hole Makes Crazy Laser Sounds | Nerdist
  Researchers in Antarctica have been working hard to find the answer to a critical question that will help us make more-effective predictive climate models. But those researchers ... - Read More

• UW ESS Students Establish Contact with HuskySat-1 Satellite
  Students in the Husky Satellite Lab at the UW have been celebrating successes since HuskySat-1, a student built satellite weighing about 9 lbs, deployed into space on Friday, ... - Read More

• Risk of Landslides in Western Washington Increases As Rain Subsides | KING 5
  Experts say while the rain is starting to subside, the risk of landslides will persist due to heavily saturated soils. Alison Duvall, assistant professor of Earth and space ... - Read More

• Antarctica Just Hit 65 Degrees, Its Warmest Temperature Ever Recorded | The Washington Post
  Just days after the earth saw its warmest January on record, Antarctica has broken its warmest temperature ever recorded. A reading of 65 degrees was taken Thursday at Esperanza ... - Read More

• Old Tapes Reveal New Details of a Deadly Volcanic Outburst | Nature
  Decades-old analogue tapes have yielded unprecedented details of earthquakes that shook Mount St. Helens in the months leading up to its cataclysmic eruption in 1980. Stephen ... - Read More

• Ep. 43: A Reality Check on Regenerative Agriculture | Undark
  Farmers and researchers are testing the environmental and economic claims about a new type of agriculture. David Montgomery, a professor of Earth and space sciences at the UW, is ... - Read More

• Tiny, Ancient Meteorites Suggest Early Earth's Atmosphere Was Rich in Carbon Dioxide
  

  Very occasionally, Earth gets bombarded by a large meteorite. But every day, our planet gets pelted by space dust, micrometeorites that collect on Earth’s surface.

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• Tiny Meteorites and Computer Models Suggest CO2 Blanketed Early Earth | GeekWire
  Today, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a cause for concern, but 2.7 billion years ago, high levels of CO2 probably kept our planet warm enough for life even though the ... - Read More

• Early 'soda Lakes' May Have Provided Missing Ingredient Key to the Origin of Life | Space
  The first life-forms on Earth needed a pu pu platter of ingredients to exist, but one of those ingredients, the mineral phosphorus, has long puzzled scientists. No one knew how ... - Read More

• By the Numbers: UW in the Media in 2019
  

   

  In 2019, the University of Washington was mentioned in 4,143 news articles around the world. Among those, UW experts were quoted 2,290 times: 1,185 in national or ... - Read More

• Opinion: Investing in Soil Health is an Investment in the Future | The Spokesman-Review
  "We've been treating soil like dirt for too long. Dirt needs to be fed in order to produce. Healthy soil contains tens of thousands of microbes pulling carbon out of the ... - Read More

• Early 'soda Lakes' May Have Provided Missing Ingredient Key to the Origin of Life | Live Science
  The first life-forms on Earth needed a pu pu platter of ingredients to exist, but one of those ingredients, the mineral phosphorus, has long puzzled scientists. No one knew how ... - Read More

• Earthquake: Disaster Foretold in the Pacific Northwest | KING 5
  This KING 5 special report covers the "the Big One," the massive earthquake and tsunami that is expected to occur along the Cascadia subduction zone. Bob Freitag, director of the ... - Read More

• Here's What Seismologists Are Saying About the Flurry of Northwest Earthquakes | Bellingham Herald
  Five moderate to strong earthquakes Monday at the northern end of the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault don't have seismologists too worried. Paul Bodin, UW research professor of ... - Read More

• Scientists Lay out Scenario for Life to Emerge from Carbonate-rich Lakes | GeekWire
  Where did life on Earth get its start? In a newly published study, researchers from the University of Washington argue that carbonate-rich lakes would have been the best place for ... - Read More

• Life Could Have Emerged from Lakes with High Phosphorus
  

  Life as we know it requires phosphorus. It’s one of the six main chemical elements of life, it forms the backbone of DNA and RNA molecules, acts as the main currency for ... - Read More

• Using Ice to Track How Nature Has Removed Greenhouse Gases from the Atmosphere in the Past | KNKX
  Researchers are using ice to track the history of the atmosphere. Peter Neff, a postdoctoral researcher in Earth and space sciences at the UW, is - Read More

• Watch: How 800,000-year-old Ice Sounds when Dropped in Antarctic Glacier | KOMO
  While studying how the Earth's air cleans itself, one UW researcher made a viral discovery: the sound a piece of ice makes when dropped down a 90-meter-deep Antarctic glacier ... - Read More

• Analysis: Where Does Beach Sand Come From? | The Conversation
  "There's more to beach sand than meets the eye. It has stories to tell about the land, and an epic journey to the sea. That's because mountains end their lives as sand on ... - Read More

• New Landslide Research from UW | KOMO 4
  New research from the UW is tracking the underlying causes to large landslides. Sean LaHusen, a graduate student in Earth and space sciences at the UW, is - Read More

• Barrels of Ancient Antarctic Air Aim to Track History of Rare Gas
  

   

  Ancient air samples from one of Antarctica’s snowiest ice core sites may add a new molecule to the record of changes to Earth’s atmosphere over the ... - Read More

• Hercules Dome, Antarctica: UW Glaciologists Begin Radar Work in Anticipation of the Next Deep-ice Drilling Project
  UW glaciology project jointly led by Knut Christianson and Eric Steig to obtain ice from the last time it was warm in Antarctica, 125,000 years - Read More

• A Dirty Truth: Humans Began Accelerating Soil Erosion 4,000 Years Ago | Eos
  Recent research combining analysis of carbon dating, sediment accumulation rates and pollen records from 632 lake beds worldwide finds deforestation is tied to increased soil ... - Read More

• New Kind of Alien 'mineral' Created on Earth | National Geographic
  The discovery is helping researchers understand what might linger on the bizarre surface of Saturn's moon Titan. Baptiste Journaux, research associate in Earth and space sciences ... - Read More

• Six UW Faculty Members Named AAAS Fellows Including ESS Prof. Eric Steig
  

  The American Association for the Advancement of Science has named six faculty members from the University of Washington as AAAS Fellows, including ESS Professor Eric Steig, ... - Read More

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