Environment

Analysis from Professor Aseem Prakash, Director of the Center for Environmental Politics

Cindy Roberts (2001) focuses on the well-being of polar bears and other animals in the zoo — and in the wild.

Aseem Prakash of the Center for Environmental Politics on the agenda of Scott Pruit, head of the EPA under the Trump administration. 

Recognized as the world's foremost expert on penguins, UW Biology's Dee Boersma has dedicated her career to ensuring these charismatic seabirds thrive! 

Researchers at the University of Washington found that earlier blooms are just one of several ways climate change may affect the park's popular flowers.

A recent study led by UW Department of Sociology's Victoria Sass found that, on top of impacts on physical health, air pollution also affects mental health. 

An interactive recycling and composting station designed by a UW team will move to the HUB this summer. 

Breaking from the general poleward movement of many species, flowering trees take an unexpected turn.

Rising global temperatures negatively impact all living beings.

University of Washington, Chemistry Ph.D. student Sarah Vorpahl will bring her passion for clean energy and policy to Washington, D.C. this September.

Extinction is usually treated as a scientific topic. The course "Cultures of Extinction" explores it with a humanities focus.

How do we live with the fact that the world we knew is going and, in some cases, already gone?

Scientists at the University of Washington, Texas A&M University and the Western Australian Museum have discovered and named a new genus and species of clingfish.

According to a University of Washington biology department research team, humans are not alone in continuing to support offspring who have "left the nest."

Center for Conservation Biology director Dr. Sam Wasser comments on how DNA mapping illegal ivory can illustrate its wider connections to drug trafficking rings.