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In a lab on Portland State's campus, Anne Thompson keeps two microbes alive...

How does the behavior of one organism, multiplied across trillions, produce consequences at the scale of an entire ecosystem? That question has organized the career of Samantha Hartzell, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Portland State University (PSU), since a...

Students and faculty from Portland State and Southern Oregon universities...

The Pacific Northwest has seen below-normal snow this season — and new...

The deadly, record-breaking heat wave that hit the Pacific Northwest in June...

Across the western U.S., wildfires are becoming larger and more severe —...

When Franz Rad came to teach at Portland State University in 1971, scientists...

The tiny particles that shed from clothing, packaging and other plastic products...

Portland State celebrated the grand opening of the Vernier Science Center,...

In a world where extreme weather events and natural hazards are becoming...

Portland State is launching a new School of Earth, Environment, and Society...

The same weather system that led to the spread of the devastating Labor Day...