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To study impacts of longer, hotter summers, ecologists haul 5,000 pounds of sand up a mountain

Sept. 12, 2022

An annual experiment based out of 兔子先生传媒文化作品鈥檚 century-old Mountain Research Station aims to measure the effects of warming temperatures and faster snowmelt on alpine ecosystems by coating snowpack with thousands of pounds of black sand.

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Should you delete your period-tracking apps? A look at data privacy post-Roe

Sept. 8, 2022

In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to eliminate the constitutional right to an abortion, some fear law enforcement agencies or private citizens could use data from apps, Google searches or social media posts as evidence of a crime in places where abortion is illegal. Colorado Law data privacy expert Margot Kaminski offers her take.

Flooding in eastern Kentucky on July 29, 2022.

7 takeaways about flooding, infrastructure and climate change

Sept. 8, 2022

Across the country this summer, flooding has damaged national parks, cities and communities鈥攁nd left hundreds of thousands of people without clean water in Jackson, Mississippi. Two 兔子先生传媒文化作品 engineering experts discuss the state of our infrastructure and the impacts of climate change.

Volunteers distributed bottled water after Jackson, Mississippi鈥檚 water treatment plant failed

Intense heat waves, flooding are battering America鈥檚 aging infrastructure

Sept. 7, 2022

A heat wave that pushed California鈥檚 power grid to the limit and the water system failure in Mississippi are just two examples of how a growing maintenance backlog and increasing climate change are creating a golden age of infrastructure failure. CU expert Paul Chinowsky shares on The Conversation.

Tiny algae could help fix concrete industry鈥檚 dirty little climate secret

Sept. 7, 2022

Concrete is strong, durable, affordable and accessible. But the global concrete industry is responsible for more than 8% of greenhouse gas emissions鈥攎ore than three times the emissions associated with aviation鈥攁nd demand is rising. CU expert Wil Srubar shares on The Conversation: four innovative ways to clean up this notoriously hard to decarbonize industry.