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• Hawaii's Lava Flows Are Making the Big Island Even Bigger | Mashable
  Lava flows from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, while devastating for homes in the way, will gradually add new land to the Big Island, continuing a long geologic history of natural ... - Read More

• A Promising Target in the Quest for a 1-million-year-old Antarctic Ice Core
  

  Ice cores offer a window into the history of Earth’s climate. Layers of ice reveal past temperatures, and gases trapped in bubbles reveal past atmospheric composition. ... - Read More

• Mount St Helens Eruption Remembered by UW Scientist Studying It
  Steve Malone, Research Professor Emeritus in ESS is interviewed by KING-TV on the 38th anniversary of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. - Read More

• A Kilauea Eruption Like No Other | Physics Today
  The famously active Kilauea volcano in Hawaii typically erupts at existing fissures and triggers minor earthquakes. This latest event has no such limitations. George Bergantz, a ... - Read More

• Mt. St. Helens and Hawaii, is Their Activity Related?
  Prof. George Bergantz was interviewed on King5 News about the similarities and differences between Mt. St. Helens and Kilauea in - Read More

• Activity at Kilauea Brings Renewed Attention to Volcanic Hazards in Washington State
  Prof. George Bergantz was recently interview regarding the sudden change in eruptive activity at Kilauea volcano and implications for Cascade - Read More

• UW Researchers Will Survey Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier As Part of Major International Effort
  

  The National Science Foundation and the U.K.’s Natural Environmental Research Council this month Read More

• Four UW Students Honored by Goldwater Foundation
  

  Three University of Washington undergraduates are among 211 students nationwide named as 2018 ... - Read More

• Early Earth's Mild Climate May Signal Life on Other Planets | Earth.com
  Early Earth has always had a volatile reputation. Previous studies have estimated various scenarios ranging from an ice-covered, snowball Earth to a sweltering environment ... - Read More

• Early Earth's Climate Was More Tame Than Previously Thought, Suggesting Other Planets May Be Suitable for Life | Tech Times
  There has yet to be consensus on the climate of early Earth. Different studies have described the planet as an extremely cold snowball, while others have said that it had ... - Read More

• Moderate Conditions on the Early Earth Raise the Prospects of Life Elsewhere | IFLScience
  Geologists have spent decades debating the temperatures during the first few hundred million years of Earth's history, as well as the early ocean's chemistry. A new paper provides ... - Read More

• Life on Alien Planets? Earth's Mild Climate History Hints at Possibility | International Business Times
  A new study presented by a group of researchers at University of Washington hints at a more moderate climatic history for our planet. David Catling, a UW professor of Earth and ... - Read More

• Earth's Stable Temperature Past Suggests Other Planets Could Also Sustain Life
  

  Theories about the early days of our planet’s history vary wildly. Some studies have painted the picture of a snowball Earth, when much of its surface was frozen. Other ... - Read More

• How Would Aliens Detect Life on Earth? | National Geographic
  From gases in the atmosphere to satellites in space, Earth is sending plenty of signals that something here is alive. Joshua Krissansen-Totton, a UW doctoral student in Earth and ... - Read More

• Not All Icebergs Are White: Here's What Makes Them Blue, Green or Striped | ABC News
  Icebergs can be beautiful and majestic -- but have you ever wondered what gives them their color? Steve Warren, professor of Earth and space sciences at the University of ... - Read More

• University of Washington Graduate and Professional Disciplines Rank Highly in US News' Best Graduate School Lists
  

  Nearly 50 different graduate and professional programs and specialties at the University of Washington are among the top 10 in the nation, according to Read More

• Stephen Hawking's Local Legacy | KUOW
  This week the universe lost one of its greatest minds; Stephen Hawking, the renowned British physicist, helped explain the behavior of black holes and demystify the cosmos for all ... - Read More

• New Cascadia Quake Analysis Shows Building Retrofits Would Save Thousands of Lives | The Seattle Times
  A Portland-area study finds single-family homes do well and that upgrades to older commercial buildings could slash both casualties and damage. Research from the UW is - Read More

• Glaciers in Mongolia's Gobi Desert Actually Shrank in the Last Ice Age | IFLScience
  During the last Ice Age as ice sheets expanded and the rest of the world grew colder, there's a pocket in Central Asia where glaciers did exactly the opposite. Jigjidsurengiin ... - Read More

• Assessing Landslide Risk | KIRO 7
  A new tool can help people in Seattle assess landslide risk in their neighborhood. David Montgomery, professor of Earth and space sciences at the UW, is - Read More

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