Climate & Environment
- Among many interdisciplinary efforts, scientists are using the power and promise of remote sensing to help solve food supply, pollution and water scarcity problems around the globe.
- Researchers have created the first global map of where mammals are most likely to move between protected areas, such as national parks and nature preserves.
- Climate change is forcing animals to adapt鈥攁nd fast. New research from a global team of researchers, including one from CU 麻豆影院, finds that wild animals might be better equipped to deal with these changes than expected.
- Cassandra Brooks has received an NSF CAREER Award to examine whether the Ross Sea's protection status is working. Part of what she'll look at is a large time series of ear bones from the Antarctic toothfish species鈥攁 health record of sorts.
- New research could help California farmers fine-tune their use and application of agricultural sulfur to sustain the wine industry and minimize unintended environmental impacts.
- NASA鈥檚 next mission to measure Earth鈥檚 outgoing energy will now proceed to the final design and fabrication phase.
- It's not just you鈥攊t was extra windy this April along the Front Range. Learn more from experts in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences about the windy spring, what the conditions could mean for the upcoming fire season and why wind is hard to predict.聽
- For centuries, East African peoples like the Maasai and Turkana have survived by herding cattle, moving these animals across miles of wide-open grasslands to keep them fed. Now, worsening droughts and a host of other challenges are threatening that nomadic existence.
- Low-cost 鈥渢ree Fitbits鈥 can pinpoint the precise timing of tree activities, like spring bloom or autumn leaf change, and more, according to a new CU 麻豆影院 study.
- The two lawmakers discussed shared motivations, opportunities for consensus-building and how to reduce political polarization around climate change to an audience of more than 150 people.