Biology Professor Ursula Goodenough’s year-and-a-half-long experience as a science writer for NPR’s 13.7 blog gave her unique insight into how atmospheric climate change is debated in the blogosphere. Goodenough, a professor of cell and molecular biology at Washington University, started the 13.7 blog with a colleague from the University of Rochester.

[media-credit name="Courtesy of Red Redemption Ltd." align="alignright" width="300"][/media-credit][rating stars=4.5]Platform: PC I’ve been playing “Fate of the World,” a global simulation game where you try to save Earth from certain destruction.

Eleven Washington University students and eleven Fudan University students will participate at the U.S. – China Student International Conference on Climate Change & Sustainability in November. Washington University Students for International Collaboration on the Environment (WUSICE) is the organizer of the Conference. The students will interact with each other throughout the six-day event, participating in lectures, discussion panels with experts and social events.

Over the weekend of Fall Break, I was part of a group from Wash. U. that attended the Missouri Powershift Summit, an environmental conference for students from around the state.

The lecture hall in the Laboratory Science building heated up Tuesday, but not as a result of global warming. Global warming was, however, the topic that brought almost 275 members of the University community to hear a lecture by Nobel Prize recipient Russell Schnell. “The atmosphere composition is changing dramatically,” said Schnell, deputy director of [...]

This summer, tornadoes ravaged the Midwest while hurricanes pounded the coasts. These storms are becoming more severe and frequent than they were in the past because of warmer temperatures.