by Susan Keown | Mar 4, 2021 | ScienceWire
While wind turbines generate clean power, they can be deadly to birds. Eric Stavney writes about how researchers reduced deaths of some species at one facility in Norway by painting one blade per turbine black. His story for The Norweigan American discusses why birds...
by Chris Tachibana | Mar 3, 2014 | ScienceWire
Pregnancy put Adrienne Ross Scanlan in a pensive mood. In a post for the City Creatures blog for the Center for Humans and Nature, Adrienne, editor of Blue Lyra Review, contemplates starlings. Are the urban birds “weeds with wings” or a sign of freedom to a...
by Chris Tachibana | Dec 4, 2013 | ScienceWire
Robin Lindley, , has reassuring news about pandemics in an interview with Dr Peter C. Doherty, immunologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and author of Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know and Their Fate Is Our Fate: How Birds Foretell Threats to Our...
by Matt Vivion | Aug 26, 2012 | Past Events
NSWA members explored Seattle’s largest city park on a guided walk from Magnolia Bluff down to Puget Sound. This hike on Aug. 25 covered a three-mile loop that passed through a variety of habitats including meadow, forest, and beach. The tour group had a great time...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 5, 2012 | ScienceWire
Maria Dolan explains the four categories of headaches in the latest Northwest Health, Group Health’s quarterly magazine with tips on fitness, nutrition and preventive medicine. Get a scorecard on duration, symptoms and treatment, with advice on how to avoid...
