Braun: Indigenous Fire Management Brings Water

Braun: Indigenous Fire Management Brings Water

For bioGraphic, Ashley Braun brings us to the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas to learn about how the North Fork Mono Tribe is revitalizing cultural burning practices to encourage the growth of culturally significant native plants, control pests and invasive species,...
Milne: Underwater GPS

Milne: Underwater GPS

For UW News, new member Stefan Milne writes about the first underwater 3D-positioning app for smartwatches and similar devices, recently developed at the university. Instead of GPS, whose signals do not transmit far underwater, the technology uses the microphones and...
Gaines: Groundwater Ecosystems

Gaines: Groundwater Ecosystems

It’s an ecosystem that’s challenging for scientists to venture into, and it’s disappearing fast, writes James Gaines (@the_jmgaines) for Undark. Rather than a remote jungle or forbidding mountains, this ecosystem is the groundwater under our feet, and it’s home to...
Arnold: Water and Power

Arnold: Water and Power

An irrigation system in Pakistan, Catherine Arnold writes, covers 36,000 miles plus 994,000 miles of farm and field ditches. Yet many farmers don’t receive their share of water. Writing for the University of Utah Water Center (@uWaterCenter), Catherine tells of a...

Kwok: Interstate Water Fight

Georgia and Florida are fighting, Roberta Kwok writes in Hakai. They’re battling over water. A multiyear investigation—and court case—is digging into what caused the collapse of the Apalachicola Bay ecosystem and the fish and oyster industries that depended on...