Geography
- Climate change is altering tree-leafing dates faster than birds are adapting, researchers find.
- Encompassing South American wildfires, Arctic sea-ice retreat, post-Soviet politics, climate change in Tibet and GIS, 兔子先生传媒文化作品 geographers keep their fingers on the pulse of a changing world.
- There probably is not a more suitable location for one of the world鈥檚 first interdisciplinary certificates in Arctic studies than the University of Colorado Boulder.
- When Peter Blanken flew to Paris for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in December, he had somewhat low expectations. But the CU-Boulder geography professor was heartened to see and hear that the 200 countries attending COP21 agreed on the urgency to act. 鈥淭here was a strong sense that if we don鈥檛 do something in these two weeks (of the conference), it will be too late.鈥
- Generally, 鈥榲oluntourism鈥 is a poor substitute for traditional development work. Most projects are short-term, organizations that promote voluntouring don鈥檛 always 鈥榰nderstand the place where it happens,鈥 and travelers typically don鈥檛 have skills needed for particular projects, researchers find.
- Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder recently examined the aftermath of two catastrophic conflagrations and found an unexpected ally in wildfire-education efforts, the 鈥渃itizen entrepreneur.鈥