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Ocean Nexus Center Virtual Open House

We hope you can join us on September 21 from 3-5 pm PT (Sept. 22 from 8-10 am AEST), as we celebrate the first two years of the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center.

Media Coverage, Climate

High Country News: ‘Every part of a degree of warming that we can avert will make the future better’

Amy Snover, researcher and director of the Climate Impacts Group, explains why the IPCC report matters, what it says about climate change in the Northwest, and how communities can prepare.

Innovation Grants, Climate

Crosscut: More mosquitoes in WA could come with hotter, longer summers

Climatologists, entomologists and public health experts worry our sunny, mostly bugless summers in the PNW could soon be a thing of the past. Cory Morin and Nick Bond were quoted regarding their Innovation Grant-funded project, Assessing Climate Driven Zoonotic Disease Risk in Washington State.

Media Coverage, Climate

UW News: With extreme heat increasingly common, UW expert calls for urgent planning to protect health in new Lancet series

Professor Kristie Ebi with the Center for Health and the Global Environment co-leads a new series on increasingly common extreme heat waves and their impact on human health.

Media Coverage

How we can restore forests, increase fire resilience and protect communities

EarthLab Advisory Board member Phil Rigdon co-authored this Seattle Times op-ed with Commissioner Hilary Franz and The Nature Conservancy's Washington director Mike Stevens.

Innovation Grants, Climate

New UW collaboratory to support equitable and just climate action

An interdisciplinary group of University of Washington researchers has teamed with Front and Centered to create an innovative Collaboratory to promote just and equitable climate action.

Re-thinking conservation: student leaders are changing the face, practice and future of environmental stewardship

EarthLab member organization Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program at the University of Washington (DDCSP@UW) teaches a new approach to conservation to emerging student leaders.

Equity and Justice

EarthLab Equity and Justice Reads: Mississippi Solo (Eddy Harris)

EarthLab has selected the next book for our Equity and Justice book club: Mississippi Solo by Eddy Harris. This selection aligns with the Future Rivers summer reading. Future Rivers will host Mr. Harris on Thursday, October 14 for an in-person screening of his film, River to the Heart, followed by a moderated Q&A with the author and director. This event will be in person, free and open to the public.

Climate

Now available: Two new Spanish-Language report translations on climate impacts in Washington

Prolonged wildfire seasons, more extreme temperatures, and more frequent floods — these are just some of the symptoms of a greater global warming problem that Washingtonians are witnessing at a higher frequency. Although these climate changes impact everyone throughout our state’s economy and ecosystems, the extent that communities are personally impacted by such experiences highlight the ways that traditionally overlooked communities continue to be disproportionately affected in the aftermath.

Climate

Carbon in Earth's atmosphere reaches highest mark in modern history, scientists say

"This past year’s slowing of greenhouse gas emissions was like turning down the tap just a little bit on a bathtub that’s already overflowing. Stopping the damage requires turning off the tap completely." Amy Snover, UW Climate Impacts Group director was quoted in the story.