Climate predictions: Worst-case might be most accurate (National Geographic) Karen Shell, a climate scientist from Oregon State University who was not involved in the research, agreed that Fasullo and Trenberth’s workaround made sense. “It’s a promising technique. It’s one study, but if this relationship holds up, it implies the climate sensitivity is on the higher [...]

 New whale seen (TIME Magazine) And seeing the animal alive in the wild remains a tantalizing goal of many scientists. Scott Baker, a marine biologist at Oregon State University and a co-author of the paper who has studied whales and dolphins for 30 years, saw his first live, open-ocean beaked whale just last month, in [...]

OSU ag students selling cheese (KGW) Just like their football team, Oregon State University dairy students say they have a winner with their Beaver Classic cheese. Study explains slow-down in global warming (ABC.net) Another study last year, based on a reconstruction of temperatures back 21,000 years, also showed that the climate’s sensitivity to a doubling [...]

Patrol targets campus traffic (Gazette-Times) Each year, when fall term arrives and Oregon State University bicycle-riding students head back to class, the instances of collisions and near-misses around campus increase, according to Oregon State Police Campus Commander Lt. Steve Mitchell. (see also KVAL, LIFE@OSU) Japan’s nuclear dilemma: What to do with all that waste? (Christian [...]

Mountain meadows dwindling in the Pacific Northwest (Earth Fix) “We worry a lot about the loss of old-growth forests, but have overlooked declines in our meadows, which are also areas of conservation concern,” said Harold Zald, a research associate in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University and lead author of this study. (see [...]