by Susan Keown | Aug 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
New member Nicholas Turner (@nickturner217) writes for the Seattle Times about how the region’s latest heat wave has forced Washington to confront the impacts of climate change. Rather than being rare events, stretches above 90 degrees are now a part of Seattle’s...
by Susan Keown | Aug 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
John Roach (@byjohnroach) writes for Microsoft about how hydrogen fuel cells could provide emission-free backup power for data centers. He visits a hydrogen generator in New York state, where shipping containers house the 3-megawatt fuel cell system that recently came...
by Susan Keown | Aug 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
In an op-ed for Wired, Jenny Morber (@JRMorber) writes that Russia should be held liable for the environmental harm it is causing in Ukraine, though the international legal and political systems don’t make that easy. Morber explains how Ukranian scientists have been...
by Susan Keown | Jul 4, 2022 | ScienceWire
Madeline Ostrander’s (@madelinevo) new book, “At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth,” shows us how Americans are working to protect the places they call home from the ravages of climate change. A mix of reported stories and lyrical essays,...
by Susan Keown | Jul 4, 2022 | ScienceWire
In her new book, “The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain is Different and How to Understand Yours,” Dr. Chantel Prat (@ChantelPratPhD), a University of Washington scientist, explains the unique features of everyone’s brains and why these differences are important....
by Susan Keown | Jul 4, 2022 | ScienceWire
Ashi Blow (@ashliblow) writes for Crosscut about the impacts of climate change on the mental health of people in the Seattle area, as floods become commonplace in South Park, wildfire smoke causes breathing difficulties and forces people inside in late summer, and we...
