A new study attributes Antarctica's brief stabilization to a short term climatic shift that increased precipitation over east Antarctica between 2021 and 2023,

The University of Washington recently awarded three UW College of the Environment teams funding to support faculty‑led, exploratory projects that thoughtfully apply artificial intelligence to enhance ...

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An ocean monitoring system off the West Coast is on the chopping block as the Trump Administration prepares to scale back a $368-million initiative.

From the archives, here's the KING 5 newscast following the April 29, 1965 Puget Sound earthquake. The magnitude 6.5 earthquake was felt over approximately 130,000 square miles, according to a U.S.…

Smaller quakes from secondary faults—which are not included in national seismic hazard modeling—occur more frequently than previously thought.

The College of the Environment has launched the Paros Geohazards Center, establishing a world-class center of research excellence to understand and mitigate environmental and geologic hazards, with an...

A new study examining 13 years of ground motion data from sites near the Cascadia Subduction Zone shows that the entirety of the fault may not be as tightly locked as researchers thought, which could....

Eight UW Environment projects have received support in the first round of Collaborative Research in Earth System Science and Technology (CRESST) project funding, totaling nearly $10 million in new fun...

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“The Memory of Darkness, Light and Ice” -- a documentary film featuring Eric Steig, a UW professor of Earth and space sciences -- tells the story of a U.S. military and research base established...

More than a decade ago, data from the Cassini mission to Saturn suggested that the planet's largest moon, Titan, had a vast ocean of liquid water below its frozen surface. In a new study, UW...

The American Geophysical Union honored five University of Washington faculty and researchers from the departments of Earth and space sciences and atmospheric and climate science this week for their...

Novel research trial uses Distributed Acoustic Sensing technology to monitor Puget Sound's orca population.

Julia Kelson, Assistant Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, is the recip...

Novel research trial uses Distributed Acoustic Sensing technology to monitor Puget Sound’s orca population.

A new collaborative study led by scientists at the University of Washington and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science proposes that a tsunami struck the Caribbean island of...