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• $1M grant received for cleanup research

  

  PULLMAN -- Markus Flury, WSU professor of soil physics, and Jim Harsh, WSU professor of soil chemistry, and colleagues from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, and the Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls, have received a three-year $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to continue research on the fate of radioactive waste that has leaked from underground tanks into the soil. Read more

• Major Grant Secured for Radioactive Isotope Study

  

  PULLMAN, Wash. – Chemist Nathalie Wall of Washington State University and a colleague at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been awarded more than $600,000 from the Department of Energy for a study of how a radioactive isotope moves in soil and water. Read more

• Agriculture Practices to Reduce the Impact of Global Climate Change

  PULLMAN, Wash.- While agriculture contributes to the buildup of greenhouse gases, it also has the potential to help the planet by implementing practices that reduce the amount of greenhouse gases emitted, and even trap some of those being produced. Read more

• WSU Researcher Finds Population, Consumption Drive Global Climate Change and Environmental Degradation

  

  PULLMAN, Wash. – A new study by a Washington State University researcher and his colleagues pinpoints the causes of a recent finding by a working group of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change that global climate warming is due to human activities. Read more

• Where Does All of That Rain Water Go?

  TACOMA, Wash. -- Where is all of the rain water of the past several weeks ending up, and more importantly to WSU Extension educator Curtis Hinman, how is it getting to its final destination? Read more

• New Zealand Mud Snails

  

  New Zealand mud snails, which can reach population densities greater than 300,000 per square meter, have invaded the Snake River, Yellowstone National Park, and lots of other sites in the western U.S., including areas where endangered U.S. snails live. Under the direction of thesis advisor Mark Dybdahl, graduate student Alison Emblidge Fromme traveled to New Zealand in search of clues to the control of this invasive species. Read more

Related News

• Economic Boom and Olympic Games Pose Threat of Biological Invasion of China

  PULLMAN, Wash.--As the citizens of Beijing prepare to welcome an invasion by athletes and spectators coming to this summer’s Olympic Games, a quieter and much less welcome invasion is already under way.

• Research Improves Detection of Harmful Pathogens

  PULLMAN, Wash. -- A group of Washington State University researchers have developed a method that greatly improves and speeds up the detection of harmful pathogens in the environment. In a paper published this month in the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, the researchers, including Prashanta Dutta, assistant professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, and colleagues from the University of Akron, present an improved and more effective Coulter device, used for the detection of the tiny microbes.

• Study Shows Common Particles in Groundwater Help Plutonium Spread from Waste Sites

  PULLMAN, Wash. – Efforts to design nuclear waste facilities should take into account the tendency of plutonium to attach itself to tiny particles called colloids that are suspended in the groundwater, according to a new study by an international research team that included Washington State University chemist Sue Clark and scientists from Moscow (Russia) State University, the University of Michigan and Cameca in France.

• WSU Study Shows Environmental Toxins Can Cause Inherited Diseases

  A disease you are suffering today could be a result of your great-grandmother being exposed to an environmental toxin during pregnancy – and you may already have passed it along to your children. That’s the conclusion reached by researchers at Washington State University, who have found that exposure to an environmental toxin during embryonic development can cause an animal, and almost all of its descendents, to develop adult-onset illnesses such as cancer and kidney disease.