Climate & Environment

Creating climate solutions requires connections, partnerships and cross-disciplinary approaches. At CU 麻豆影院, we lead across all fields of climate research: adaptation and innovation, policy, natural hazards, human impacts, and climate science.听Stay up to date on our groundbreaking research and technological advancements.

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Oft-overlooked grasslands build biodiversity, resilience over centuries

Aug. 4, 2022

The restoration of grassland ecosystems may need more of a guided, hands-on approach over time, according to a new review of global conservation efforts.

New center to allow explorations of human dimensions of environmental challenges

Aug. 4, 2022

Bringing together social and environmental scientists, CIRES鈥� new Center for Social and Environmental Futures will facilitate cutting-edge research, education and outreach activities focused on the human dimensions of environmental problems.

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Exploring the intersection of science, policy in Brazil鈥檚 legendary rainforests

Aug. 4, 2022

Graduate students in CU鈥檚 Masters in the Environment program recently journeyed into the Amazon and Atlantic forests with the Colorado-Brazil Program for Sustainable Development Education, where they were taught to keep human interest at the heart of conservation and climate change efforts.

Report outlines emerging technologies to improve Colorado water management

Aug. 1, 2022

A new report from CU 麻豆影院 and Colorado State University outlines how a variety of emerging technologies can help water managers, landowners and policymakers improve western water management in the face of severe, ongoing drought.

Amid climate change and conflict, more resilient food systems a must, report shows

July 15, 2022

A new CU 麻豆影院-led study ranks the top 32 threats to food security over the next two decades, pointing to climate change and conflict as top culprits and calling for more coordination in building resilient food systems around the globe.

What the SCOTUS ruling on EPA and emissions means for climate change

July 11, 2022

Colorado Law's Jonathan Skinner-Thompson discusses the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), limiting the EPA鈥檚 authority under a provision of the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector.

2018 aerial view over the CU 麻豆影院 campus. (Photo by Glenn Asakawa/University of Colorado)

NOAA, CU 麻豆影院 expand research partnership

June 30, 2022

The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at CU 麻豆影院 will continue to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth system and data science research under a new agreement.

These snails died during Prohibition. Researchers just identified their gut microbes

June 29, 2022

The gut microbiomes of long-dead animals could give researchers surprising insights into how climate change and other factors have shaped the Rocky Mountains over decades.

Konrad Steffen with ice covering his mustache

Glacier named for Konrad Steffen, former CIRES director

June 21, 2022

The Greenland Place Name Committee has named a glacier 鈥淪ermeq Konrad Steffen鈥� after the late Konrad Steffen, former director of CIRES, who made exceptional contributions to Greenlandic society and science.

Newly documented population of polar bears听sheds light on species鈥� future

June 20, 2022

A new population of polar bears documented on the southeast coast of Greenland use glacier ice to survive, despite limited access to sea ice. This small, genetically distinct group of polar bears could be important to the future of the species in a warming world.

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