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Riders get on Denver bus

Free bus fare didn’t yield better air

July 29, 2024

New research by CU Â鶹ӰԺ PhD student Grant Webster finds that the free-fare public transit initiative didn’t reduce ground-level ozone, but may have other benefits.

Illustration of Earth from space with lines indicating interconnection

In an interconnected world, managing and perceiving risk is key, experts say

Feb. 26, 2024

CU Â鶹ӰԺ researcher Steve Miller argues for deeper insight into how people understand risk before shocks, especially those related to climate change, happen in global systems.

School girls holding PridePads in Cameroon

Reducing gender inequality, one biodegradable menstrual pad at a time

Dec. 5, 2023

Through his nonprofit, Ajume Wingo, CU Â鶹ӰԺ associate professor of philosophy, is providing sanitary pads and menstrual education in his home country, Cameroon.

Tibetan pastoralist herding yaks

‘Choosing’ to leave high-altitude Tibetan homes?

Oct. 24, 2023

Recent research by CU Â鶹ӰԺ geographer Emily Yeh studies the difference between consent and coercion in ‘voluntary’ resettlement of pastoralists in Tibet’s Nagchu region.

Colorado mountains

What does carbon offset actually mean for U.S. forests?

Sept. 6, 2023

CU Â鶹ӰԺ study shows that 96% of all carbon offset credits from U.S. forestry projects were issued for improved forest management practices, not tree planting or forest protection.

sunflower

Are sunflowers Colorado’s best hedge against climate change?

July 11, 2023

In the state’s dry, nutrient-deficient soil, CU Â鶹ӰԺ researchers and others aim to learn if the crop can survive and even thrive in a hotter, drier future.

ocean

Large or small, nuclear war would wreak havoc on the ocean

May 31, 2023

Study finds that the ocean could never fully recover if a nuclear war were to break out.

Shakespeare

Reducing violence, with help from The Bard

May 23, 2023

Colorado Shakespeare Festival staffers share Shakespeare & Violence Prevention program with scholars and practitioners in England, including at Shakespeare’s Globe theatre.

Researcher holding finch

Rosy-finches are Colorado’s high-alpine specialists, and researchers want to know why

Jan. 19, 2023

Birds that can live at 14,000 feet and also breed at sea level might have evolved more quickly than previously thought.

Floods that cuts the Raya Bintara Rd. on 1st January, 2020

Human-caused global warming, natural climate variability in vicious cycle

Dec. 2, 2022

Scientists show how the two factors combined to cause extreme ocean events in Indonesia.

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