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a traditional cookstove in rural India

Targeting cookstove pollution using supercomputers and NASA satellites

Jan. 23, 2017

New air quality research is investigating a major, but often overlooked contributor to outdoor pollution and climate: burning of solid fuel for cooking and heating.

A Doppler radar system sits on the flatbed of a truck.

Cloud seeding aims to increase mountain snowfall, power generation

Jan. 13, 2017

A joint research project involving what's called cloud seeding aims to beef up mountain snowfall and, subsequently, power generation. The results hopefully will be applicable to many mountain ranges in the western U.S.

Jessie Creamean

Smoke, dust from Pacific Northwest fires affect babyÖ±²¥app's air quality

Dec. 27, 2016

During poor air quality days in Denver last year, CU Boulder and NOAA scientists found that specks of mineral dust swept into the region along with smoke from Pacific Northwest wildfires. Both smoke and mineral dust have consequences not only for health, but also for climate.

ring tailed lemur in tree

Ring-tailed lemurs of Madagascar: Going, going, gone?

Dec. 19, 2016

Madagascar's ring-tailed lemurs are in a steep decline because of habitat destruction, bushmeat hunting and illegal capture for the pet trade.

cows grazing near samaipata, bolivia

Local government engagement, decentralized policies can help reduce deforestation

Dec. 12, 2016

Empowering local governments with forestry decisions can help combat deforestation, but is most effective when local users are actively engaging with their representatives, according to a new University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder-led study.

solar panels on a roof

Just Transition Collaborative aids development of city resolutions on climate justice

Dec. 7, 2016

With a focus on building a green economy that benefits all community members, the city of Boulder's climate plan includes a roadmap to advance social justice in the transition to renewable energy. The focus on social justice emerged from community input into the draft climate plan, facilitated by CU Boulder's Just Transition Collaborative and partner organizations.

power plant stacks

Boosting power plants’ efficiency can cause emissions rebound, study finds

Nov. 29, 2016

Increasing the efficiency of power plants’ efficiency is often assumed to be an effective means of reducing carbon emissions. However, an empirical analysis of plants’ efficiency and emission led by a University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder sociology professor casts some doubt on that conventional wisdom.

Taylor Valley in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Credit: Dave Haney, NSF

Season of intense melting in Antarctica offers insights into continent's future

Oct. 13, 2016

Scientists and students working with the National Science Foundation, including Associate Professor Michael Gooseff of environmental engineering and INSTAAR, have authored a series of papers on how a single season of intense melting in Antarctica in 2001-02 may affect the continent’s ecological future, including its potential impact on global climate change.

Different types aircrcraft gathered data for the new study

Study finds fossil fuel methane emissions greater than previously estimated

Oct. 5, 2016

Methane emissions from global fossil fuel development are up to 60 percent greater than previous estimates, according to a new study.

Greenland's Zachariæ Isbræ.

Greenland Ice Sheet may be losing more glacial mass than previously estimated

Sept. 21, 2016

Previous estimates of ice mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet—already known to be shrinking—may be underestimates, according to a new study co-authored by CU Boulder researchers. Photo credit: Greenland's Zachariæ Isbræ, Anders A. Bjørk

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