by Chris Tachibana | Nov 1, 2016 | ScienceWire
When the climate changes, animals move, Michelle Ma writes for UW Today. But as temperatures rise, where exactly will they go? Michelle links to an informative, interactive, and hypnotic map developed by the University of Washington and The Nature Conservancy....
by Chris Tachibana | Nov 1, 2016 | ScienceWire
What happened? Samantha Larson visits meterologist Cliff Mass to find out why predictions of a massive October windstorm didn’t live up to the hype. Paradoxically, she writes in Crosscut, the answer is that weather data and modeling are improving. Samantha is the...
by Chris Tachibana | Nov 1, 2016 | ScienceWire
Social learning by kids with autism, writes Kate Forster, might be enhanced if they have time to learn and play with typically developing children. Kate writes about a project in Seattle Public Schools to study the effectiveness of this approach. See this and other...
by Chris Tachibana | Nov 1, 2016 | ScienceWire
For readers on your gift list, Adrienne Ross Scanlan has a new book, Turning Homeward: Restoring Hope and Nature in the Urban Wild. In this just-released work from Mountaineers Books, Adrienne tells of creating a home in the Pacific Northwest by working as a citizen...
by Chris Tachibana | Oct 2, 2016 | ScienceWire
In The Smithsonian, Ker Than tells of geologists following a hunch about odd-looking stalagmites and discovering a way to study ancient earthquakes. The drip of water from a cave ceiling to a floor creates a low-tech record of seismic activity, writes Ker. He has lots...
