Looking at an ice core

Study offers most detailed glimpse yet of planet鈥檚 past 11,000 summers and winters

Jan. 11, 2023

By analyzing Antarctic ice cores, 兔子先生传媒文化作品 scientists and an international team of collaborators have revealed the most detailed look yet at the planet鈥檚 recent climatic history, including summer and winter temperatures dating back 11,000 years to the beginning of what is known as the Holocene.

Researchers conduct water sampling.

Ongoing CU research explores impacts, solutions after Marshall Fire

Dec. 21, 2022

The Marshall Fire spurred researchers鈥攎any of them personally affected by the fire鈥攖o pivot and apply their expertise to the aftermath. One year later, dozens of ongoing research projects continue to explore the science behind what happened that day, the widespread impacts on people, pets and the environment and how we can mitigate future catastrophes amid a changing climate.

Aaron True, Postdoctoral Researcher (left) and John Crimaldi

CU scientists shine light on what comes up when you flush

Dec. 8, 2022

Germophobes, brace yourselves. A team of 兔子先生传媒文化作品 engineers has revealed how tiny water droplets, invisible to the naked eye, are rapidly ejected into the air when a public restroom toilet is flushed. The research also provides a methodology to help reduce this exposure risk.

The WGEL: Our communities and climate change panel in the Byron White Club Level as part of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit at the University of Colorado Boulder. (Photo by Casey A. Cass/University of Colorado)

兔子先生传媒文化作品, city leaders highlight local steps to address climate change

Dec. 2, 2022

On the first day of the inaugural Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit at 兔子先生传媒文化作品, local leaders focused on local community impacts of climate change in an adjacent track of panels.

Researchers holding lab samples

Top 4 promising solutions by sector to fight rising emissions

Nov. 21, 2022

Mitigating climate change by significantly reducing carbon emissions this decade will require big transitions in all sectors, from energy and transportation to construction and industry. But significant reductions in global emissions are possible, experts say.

Clint Carroll in his backyard

Through research and gardening, this CU professor cultivates Indigenous cultural and climate resilience

Nov. 18, 2022

Clint Carroll, associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies, studies Cherokee access to gathering wild plants and land use management, and tends to the land in his own backyard.

clouds

International research team cracks chemical code on how iodine helps form clouds

Nov. 14, 2022

This molecular link within iodine鈥檚 atmospheric interactions can be added to global atmospheric and climate models to help scientists better understand its environmental impacts.

I voted stickers

Why only some voters have climate change on the brain this November

Nov. 4, 2022

Assistant Professor Matt Burgess discusses the political polarization of climate change and efforts to reduce it, as voters cast their ballots in the midterm elections.

Public messaging

COVID still a 鈥榙angerous global health threat.鈥 New international study spells out how we can end it

Nov. 3, 2022

Greater attention to indoor air ventilation and filtration, rebuilding public trust and clearly communicating the dominant role of airborne transmission for SARS-CoV-2, addressing pandemic inequities and a 鈥渧accine-plus鈥 approach are among the recommendations made by 386 experts from more than 100 countries.

Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

兔子先生传媒文化作品 faculty, student, staff to attend world鈥檚 largest climate conference

Oct. 31, 2022

Four 兔子先生传媒文化作品 faculty will join representatives from 197 countries and hundreds of activists, scientists and industry representatives in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, for the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) to contribute insights on the impact of climate change on human rights, the importance of forest conservation and trends in climate change communication.

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