Pick your favorite cause to explain Oregon's declining salmon runs: predators, hatcheries, dams, over-fishing, climate change. While opinions abound, scientists are finding clues that may help this Northwest icon endure.
The risk of falling rises as we get older, but researchers and fitness instructors have a prescription: Better Bones and Balance. Even if you're 88 years old, there's a class for you.
When Jerry and Diane Plante went to the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Oregon, they discovered more than they bargained for. They became part of a movement that is breaking new ground in science education.
It took a potato launcher, a canoe and a helium-filled balloon to propel a high-tech scientific enterprise during an international workshop at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest.
When Spanish expeditions explored what is now the Santa Barbara, California, region in the 16th and 17th centuries, they found thriving native communities.
What became the state of Oregon, an area stretching south from the Columbia Gorge to the Siskiyous, and east from the Pacific over the Coastal Range and Cascades to the High Desert, was a land of many languages, each one encoding information about the land and how to survive on it.
Creating more efficient, environmentally friendly electronics manufacturing practices is the goal of a new Green Materials Chemistry Center at Oregon State University and the University of Oregon.
By collecting and testing the toxicity of particles in Northwest air samples, OSU Ph.D. student Julie Layshock is shedding light on the relative health threat posed by long-distance air pollution.
The complex interactions among species and their habitats have bedeviled scientists from before Charles Darwin's day to the present, preventing them in many cases from generating information that managers need to develop effective policies.
The nomination of Oregon State University marine ecologist Jane Lubchenco to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reflects OSU's growing leadership in federal environmental science programs.
Growing up in Central Oregon's spectacular landscape, Ajeet Johnson challenged the backcountry of the Cascades. She pulled herself hand-over-hand up Smith Rock and carved down slopes at Mt. Bachelor, but over time, she became curious about the forces that shaped the terrain and will influence its future.
Rob Golembiewski wears a size-13 shoe, but that's nothing compared with the shoes he has to fill.
M. tuberculosis is a tenacious germ. Armored in a thick, waxy wall impervious to water, the bacterium can lie dormant in the lungs for decades, waiting for a weakness in its human host.
