Environmental Studies

The WSU Sustainability Fair is a way for WSU faculty, staff, and students and companies to promote and share sustainability focused research, projects, services, and products within the WSU community.

Dr. Paul Auerbach, a physician, author, and professor of medicine at Stanford, will present “Climate Change and Human Health — There Are No Boundaries.”

From cities to rural and wild areas, Kevan Moffett wants to better understand the role of water on the planet.

Learn how to protect and preserve their streams and waterways at an upcoming Stream Stewards training course from WSU Extension experts.

U.S. agriculture uses about a billion pounds of plastic annually, and much of that material ends up in landfills, rivers, oceans and even our food and beverages.

A WSU researcher for the first time has modeled how microplastic fibers move through the environment.

One‑fourth of the carbon held by soil is bound to minerals as far as six feet below the surface, a WSU researcher has found.

Researchers with WSU’s School of the Environment, highlight the importance of adapting to, providing and using data sets in ecology and other field research.

WSU Vancouver researcher analyzes The Great Drought — the most devastating in the past 800 years — and the Global Famine.

Salmon exposed to toxic stormwater runoff can die in a matter of hours, and scientists are asking for Puget Sound area residents’ help in identifying affected streams.