Climate & Environment
With the holiday season upon us and the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP28, kicking off this month, researchers launched Food Twin to show where crops come from—and how climate change could impact this fragile network.
Ensuring a fully inclusive transition toward a low-carbon society is an essential part of the agenda at this month’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai. CU Boulder researcher Clint Carroll offers his take on why Indigenous Peoples must be part of the conversation.
Earth’s glaciers are shrinking at an alarming rate as the world’s climate warms. Get scientist Twila Moon’s take on why these icy rivers matter to everyone, even if you don’t have a glacier in your backyard.
As part of a major federal endeavor to combat climate change, CU Boulder is advancing marine carbon dioxide removal techniques to cut harmful greenhouse gasses by providing new methods for monitoring verification and reporting.
A new national assessment of water and climate led by Liz Payton, a water resources specialist in the CIRES-based Western Water Assessment, cites some national progress.
CU Boulder researchers attracted a record $684.2 million in fiscal year 2022–23 for studies that, among other things, elevate quantum science in babyÖ±²¥app, solve mysteries about the sun and provide even better data on sea ice, ice sheets, glaciers and more.
Follow CIRES scientist Audrey Gaudel and her collaborators as they walk the streets of New York City taking detailed readings of air pollutants from a simple backpack.
Atmospheric scientist Joost de Gouw tackles the public’s ‘need to know’ following the Marshall Fire with scientific evidence related to air quality in a talk at ScienceWriters 2023 at CU Boulder.
CU Boulder scientist Anne Jennings has spent the last two months on a ship off the coast of Greenland drilling samples deep below the ocean floor. Here’s what she hopes to learn.
CU Boulder researchers, funded with $2.2 million from the Centers for Disease Control, are studying whether installing simple air purifiers in babyÖ±²¥app classrooms can keep students from missing school.