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Health of amphibians in oil sand fields area assessed

By Will Ferguson, WSU College of Arts and Science The impact of pollutants from the world’s largest oil sand field on the health of amphibians marks the focus of a team of research biologists from Washington State University and Canada.

Rock Doc column: Mercury lingers from good old days

By E. Kirsten Peters, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – When I was a younger and more sprightly woman, I spent part of my life investigating unusual hot springs in rural California. They were salty and quite stinky springs out in the middle of nowhere, and several of them occurred […]

Riches unearthed in the midst of war

    PULLMAN – Some geologists are heroes.   That was the thought that came to my mind when I read of what Afghan geologists had done during the long and difficult time the Taliban had run their country.   Even without real hope they might ever do geology again, but with fears about what […]