climate change
January 16, 2025
Ice spy
UW alum Peter Neff is no stranger to dangerous helicopter rides in the world's most remote and frigid landscape.
February 24, 2024
Clean energy urgency
The UW’s Clean Energy Institute is speeding the development of next-generation technology and supporting the experts who will create it.
Clean-energy Republican
Heather Reams advocates for clean energy and discusses climate change from a Republican perspective.
June 4, 2023
Down to earth
Blending her own story with tales of climate crisis negotiations, Brianna Craft shows us the world in her memoir.
February 25, 2023
Parasite paradox
Using specimens from the Burke Museum, a research team finds a worrisome decline.
March 5, 2022
Power of innovation
A new UW facility will bring together scientists, engineers and students to develop clean-energy solutions for a healthy planet and a sustainable future.
March 4, 2021
Our climate future is now
Scientists spent decades warning us about what would happen during the 2020s and 2030s. Now we see it.
June 10, 2020
The ultimate puzzle
Doctoral student Emily Rabe loves puzzles. Now she's working on one with high stakes—one that could have a significant impact on our planet’s health.
December 1, 2019
A tern for the worse
Feeding the wrong food to chicks could spell disaster for several species of terns.
October 22, 2019
Plea for the planet
Tenacity led Jim Anderson, ’66, the 2019 Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus, to help save the ozone; he's not about to give up.
September 2, 2019
Warming sea
A die-off points to a larger-scale, longer-term problem with the food supply caused by warming seas.
September 1, 1998
The big chill
By freezing a ship in the Arctic ice cap, scientists may get hot leads on global warming.
December 1, 1997
Cool car
UW Professor Abe Hertzberg and his colleagues set out to create a better alternative to grandma's gas-guzzling Gremlin.
September 1, 1997
Reading the skies
UW professors track data that may reveal future droughts, bountiful harvests and even global warming.
March 1, 1996
Some global warming may be natural, researchers say
As much as one-third of the climate warming since 1975 may come from natural variability in weather patterns, particularly the El Nino effect, say UW scientists.