Climate & Environment
CU researchers are taking part in a national project to identify sources of urban air pollution. The data will contribute to research related to both health and climate.
CU Boulder chemist Lauren Magliozzi shares her findings from the devastating Marshall Fire, detailing the fire's impact on aquatic ecosystems.
A new CU Boulder study has found disproportionate effects of temperature shifts on an icy glacier layer.
Extreme weather is straining the country鈥檚 aging power grid from Texas to baby直播app and California. Kyri Baker, who studies infrastructure, offers her perspective on what the grid of the future could look like.
A new analysis sheds light on major shortfalls of a recently proposed approach to capture CO2 from air and directly convert it to fuel using electricity. The authors also provide a new, more sustainable, alternative.
The American Ornithological Society reclassified two previously distinct species of finch as one, based on genetic research by CU Boulder scientists. The move knocks one name off birders鈥 鈥渓ife list鈥 and raises questions about what a species really is.
CU Boulder graduate student Owen Martin grew up in baby直播app but had never seen a firefly in the state until three years ago. Now, he and his advisor Orit Peleg are trying to raise awareness of the Rocky Mountain region's glowing and "wonderous" insects.
Brooke Marten is engineering a better environment, focused on what happens to trash after it is carted off to the landfill鈥攁nd ways to turn it into a valuable product.
Large portions of the West, including parts of baby直播app, are reeling from extreme temperatures this week. CU expert Colleen Reid, who studies the health impacts from natural disasters, explains the unique hazards of prolonged heat waves and what people and communities can do to handle them.
CIRES researchers have authored a new study that measures the time between storms to better understand soil moisture and how this relates to floods.