Climate & Environment
- CIRES researchers have authored a new study that measures the time between storms to better understand soil moisture and how this relates to floods.
- ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· has earned a major grant to boost drought monitoring and prediction on the Colorado River.
- Researchers at the ATLAS Institute at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· hope their DIY machine will help designers around the world experiment with making their own, sustainable fashion and other textiles from a range of natural ingredients—maybe even the chitin in crab shells or agar-agar from algae.
- Professor Edith Zagona provided technical and advisory services during a U.S. Agency for International Development-sponsored visit to Armenia, where rural communities are running out of water due to uncontrolled use by fish farms and pollution caused by untreated mining tailings.
- Areas with more paved roads and driveways also had lower numbers of pollinators, which are vital for the local ecosystem, a new ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· study found.
- Announced by Gov. Jared Polis, two grants totaling nearly $700,000 through the statewide Geothermal Energy Grant Program will help determine whether geothermal energy is feasible for the campus.
- ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· chemist Oana Luca gives her take on how carbon-dependent sectors, such as chemical manufacture and long-haul transportation, can reduce emissions.
- A CU researcher argues setting minimum targets for wildlife conservation inevitably excludes other worthwhile goals, including restoration and ecosystem management.
- Khosro Ghobadi-Far is advancing the science of climate change with orbiting satellites through an $800,000 NASA grant.
- An engineer, a graduate student and three research scientists are in Greenland braving extreme cold and blustery winds as they install 25 instruments to observe changes in the ice sheet-atmosphere system during the summer melt season.