Climate & Environment
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The public is invited to celebrate at a six-night, in-person seminar series with dates June 21鈥29, featuring talks from local artists and scientists over dinner at the newly renovated Wildrose Dining Hall.
- Climate change is having significant impacts on Antarctica鈥檚 ice sheets, climate and ecosystems with far-reaching global consequences, according to a new international report of which CU's Cassandra Brooks is a co-author.
- Escaped methane from oil and gas operations contributes more to climate change than previously thought. But a new CU 麻豆影院-born startup, inspired by a 2005 Nobel Prize winning discovery, has devised a way to sniff out leaks in real time.