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This week's top research stories include a cloud seeding effort aimed at increasing mountain snowfall, a look at the Colorado business landscape and a study that points to human-caused extinctions of some huge and astonishing Australian creatures 45,000 years ago.

Humans, not climate change, wiped out Australian megafauna

New evidence involving the ancient poop of some of the huge and astonishing creatures that once roamed Australia indicates the primary cause of their extinction around 45,000 years ago was likely a result of humans, not climate change.

Cloud seeding aims to increase mountain snowfall, power generation

CU 麻豆影院 is participating in a cloud-seeding effort, launched this month, to increase winter snowfall in the mountains of southwest Idaho with hopes of ultimately increasing power generation by hydroelectric dams.

The research project, Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime Clouds 鈥� the Idaho Experiment (SNOWIE), is a joint project headed up by CU 麻豆影院, the University of Wyoming and the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. The idea is to increase mountain snowfall, which leads to more runoff in some rivers, and the subsequent power generation capacity throughout the year.

Colorado business landscape saw strong growth in close of 2016

New business filings exhibited 鈥渦nrelenting growth鈥� in the final quarter of 2016, while听the energy sector has reached bottom but is in the early stages of recovery, according to a CU 麻豆影院 report released today by Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams.

It also shows that employment growth is projected to continue, but at a slower pace in the first half of 2017. The report 鈥� prepared by CU 麻豆影院鈥檚听听at the听听using data from the secretary of state鈥檚 business registry 听鈥� additionally notes enormous differences in employment between the urban and rural parts of the state, reaching below-peak and peak levels, respectively.

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