The air in the United States and Western Europe is much cleaner than even a decade ago. Low-sulfur oil standards and regulations on power plants have successfully cut sulfate concentrations in the air, reducing the fine particulate matter that harms human health and cleaning up the environmental hazard of acid rain.

Large swaths of U.S. military land are covered with munitions components, including the explosive chemical RDX.

Michelle Ma and Kiyomi Taguchi - UW News Just a few days shy of the first day of spring, scientists at Friday Harbor Laboratories on San Juan Island had reason to celebrate.

A fire in Central Park seems to appear as a smoke plume and a line of flames in a satellite image.

Recent honors and achievements for University of Washington faculty and staff include a Guggenheim fellowship in film history, a Fulbright fellowship for bioethics research in South Africa and membership in a new state cybersecurity team formed by the National Governors Association.

Telehealth has become a critical way for doctors to still provide health care while minimizing in-person contact during COVID-19.

Hannah Hickey , Kiyomi Taguchi and Rebecca Gourley UW News Posted under: Engineering , Environment , Interactive , News releases , Population Health , Research , Science , Video When the Big One hits, the first thing Washington residents notice may not be the ground shaking, but their phone issuing a warning.

Various studies show that people of color are disproportionately exposed to air pollution in the United States. However, it's unclear whether this unequal exposure is due mainly to a few types of emission sources or whether the causes are more systemic.

Malaria mosquitoes, the world's deadliest creatures, cause 400,000 deaths a year. One of two grants awarded to UW biology professors by the Human Frontier Science Program, or HFSP, will enable a research team including Jeffrey Riffell to study malaria mosquito swarming and mating dynamics to help control swarms and curb disease.

The internet seems like the place to go to get into fights. Whether they're with a family member or a complete stranger, these arguments have the potential to destroy important relationships and consume a lot of emotional energy.

The first results from the Muon g-2 experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have revealed that fundamental particles called muons behave in a way that is not predicted by scientists' best theory to date, the Standard Model of particle physics.

How plants will fare as carbon dioxide levels continue to rise is a tricky problem and, researchers say, especially vexing in the tropics.