Climate & Environment

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A blooming agave plant on the CU Boulder campus.

Campus agave plants showcase once-in-a-lifetime blooms

July 13, 2023

Thirty years after the late linguistics professor Allan Taylor planted two rare agave plants outside a CU Boulder greenhouse, his legacy is sporting a once-in-a lifetime burst of color.

Plastic bottles and other trash on a beach

The future of recycling could one day mean dissolving plastic with electricity

July 5, 2023

Every year, consumers in the United States produce millions of tons of plastic waste, and most of it winds up in landfills. New research from chemists at CU Boulder takes a first step toward making all that trash vanish.

Polar Postdoc Leadership Workshop participants posing for group photo

Next generation of polar scientists work toward more inclusive future

July 5, 2023

After the week-long Polar Postdoc Leadership Workshop, led by the Polar Science Early Career Community Office, participants not only grew their skills and knowledge鈥攖hey bonded over a shared vision to make the polar sciences more inclusive and welcoming and identified how they can support and lead their vision.

Orange light and smoke billow over mountain tops. (Photo by Malachi Brooks on Unsplash)

To prevent the next major wildfire, we need a 鈥楽mokey Bear for the suburbs鈥�

June 29, 2023

With the Fourth of July approaching and a thick green carpet of fuel covering much of the West after a rainy spring, CU Boulder fire ecologist Jennifer Balch is calling on people to do their part to prevent the next megafire.

Antarctic ice shelves see only minor changes in surface melt since 1980

June 23, 2023

Antarctic ice shelves have experienced only minor changes in surface melt rates over the past four decades, unlike the rapid increase in surface melt experienced by Greenland鈥檚 glaciers during the same time period, according to new CU-led research.

Nguy峄卬 Trinh Thi, Letters from Panduranga (2015), video still

Eyeing environmental issues through a camera lens

June 19, 2023

In her latest research, Brianne Cohen, a contemporary art history professor, examines the intersection of art and environmental activism.

doctoral students outside the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory

Following the pandemic, CIRES students venture out

June 14, 2023

One professor decided it was time to get her doctoral students in environmental science real-life experience by taking them on a four-day field trip to a remote research station up high in baby直播app鈥檚 mountains.

Why must we protect nature? Because we can, philosopher says

June 14, 2023

In the book 鈥淭he Wild and the Wicked,鈥� philosophy professor Benjamin Hale argues that because people have the unique capacity to care for the environment, they have a moral obligation to do so.

CU Boulder鈥檚 Mountain Research Station researchers pose for a group photo

鈥楥lassroom in the sky鈥� inspires generations of researchers, students

June 9, 2023

Just north of Nederland, about 26 miles from Boulder, is CU Boulder鈥檚 Mountain Research Station. It is the university鈥檚 highest research facility and is home to some of the world鈥檚 longest-running alpine research on everything from how trees respond to increasing wildfires to charismatic little pikas and more.

As the Southern Ocean heats up, the race is on to protect Antarctica鈥檚 marine life

June 6, 2023

As Earth鈥檚 atmosphere continues to warm, biodiversity in the global ocean is increasingly at risk. In this Q&A with Cassandra Brooks, we explain the importance of protecting the Southern Ocean in particular as the world races to conserve biodiversity across the globe.

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