pollution
March 12, 2020
Fishing for arsenic
Researchers study the movement of water and heavy metals’ impact on aquatic life in lakes near Tacoma.
September 1, 2013
Pollution pall
For years, scientists regarded the decades of drought in Central Africa that reached an apex in the 1980s as the result of poor agricultural practices and overgrazing. New University of Washington research, however, shows that the drought was caused at least in part by Northern Hemisphere air pollution.
March 1, 2009
Sneaker swim
Curtis Ebbesmeyer recalls the event that first turned him on to flotsam: the Great Sneaker Spill of 1990.
March 1, 1998
Smog travels east
A new UW study indicates that about 10 percent of the ozone and other pollutants that hang over West Coast cities comes from the industrialized nations of East Asia.