A new University of Washington study has confirmed the best option for disposing of unused food and yard waste is composting rather than sending it to the landfill.
Food waste generates the greenhouse gas methane when it decomposes in landfills, but not when it's composted. Cities such as Seattle with municipal composting avoid generating a large amount of methane as a result of keeping the organic materials out of the landfill.
If you missed the Sustainability Summit events at the SustainableUW Festival, you can now watch the Husky Highlight keynote speech and Huskies for Humanity Speakers panel online at UWTV.
Growing up in Chicago, Jesse Okwu’s closest connection to nature was watching environmental documentaries on public television. So when he came to Washington for an eight-week summer program on conservation issues, and visited the state’s national parks and desert landscapes, it was his first real encounter with the wilderness.
By the end of the program, the sophomore at Knox College in Illinois was loving the outdoor field trips. Now, he’s thinking about how conservation work could become part of his career path in economics.
Managing marine fisheries from an ecosystem perspective is a unique challenge, one that is bringing together numerous scientists on a new task force to move the science on this issue forward. Dubbed the Fishery Ecosystem Task Force, the group—funded by the Lenfest Ocean Program—will conduct their work under the leadership of Tim Essington from the College of the Environment’s School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences.
By hightailing it to nearby ponds and shallow waterways, frogs and salamanders have – until now – had a way to evade exotic trout introduced to the West’s high-mountain lakes for recreational fishing.
In a twist on the concept of citizen scientist, University of Washington science students helped the state Legislature with environmental policy.
Let's say you're tired of climate inaction. Let's say you want to see somewhere in the United States that is actually, you know, doing things.