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Researchers look into a future life indoors

PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University researchers will evaluate a dozen local homes as part of a national study on climate change’s effects on future indoor air quality.

Sterilizing Mars spacecraft is largely a waste of money

WSU’s Schulze-Makuch PULLMAN, Wash. – Two university researchers say environmental restrictions have become unnecessarily restrictive and expensive – on Mars. Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, astrobiologists Alberto Fairén of Cornell University and Dirk Schulze-Makuch of Washington State University say the NASA Office of Planetary Protection’s “detailed and expensive” efforts to keep Earth microorganisms off […]

EPA grant helps keep sporting events, concerts green

PULLMAN – Over the past three years, WSU has recycled nearly 60 tons of waste generated from major sporting and entertainment events on its main campus here under a program made possible through a $17,400 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency. WSU Waste Manager Richard Finch said the additional special-event recycling has been made possible […]

WSU receives $900,000 grant

(Photo: Fire crews attempt to contain wild fire in Oregon that began as a controlled slash burning fire. Photo by Istockphoto) PULLMAN — A group of researchers in the Laboratory for Atmospheric Research have received an EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) grant to look at the impacts of global climate change on regional air quality […]