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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.
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A 30-plus-acre slope near here may be one of the last, best chances to understand the insect world of the pre-agriculture Palouse Prairie, according to Richard Zack, a Washington State University professor of entomology.
He and graduate student Jessica Thompson of Chico, Calif., are conducting research on the plot this summer to determine how the insect population – especially the moth population–-there differs from the insect population in surrounding agricultural areas.
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Researchers at Washington State University’s Laboratory of Atmospheric Research are working with a group of more than 20 universities and government agencies who are using Mexico City as a case study in how to tackle the huge problem of air quality in megacities.
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Technology alone isn’t likely to rescue our planet from the detrimental environmental impacts of industrialization and other human activities, according to a WSU researcher and leader in developing a way to scientifically model and assess human-environment interactions.
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Imagine trying to measure a needle in a haystack from an overflying airplane. That’s similar to the task researchers in the Laboratory for Atmospheric Research (LAR) at Washington State University are hoping to accomplish with new instrumentation to measure precise levels of ground-level air pollution.
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At Washington's Soap Lake, WSU researcher Brent Peyton is learning about tiny microorganisms that could be key to solving 21st-century problems in areas from pharmaceuticals to environmental cleanup.
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John Bishop, an ecologist at Washington State University Vancouver, studies the recovery of lupines on the pumice plain at Mount St. Helens.
