Climate & Environment
- Environmental designer Kevin Krizek shares how systemic barriers and status-quo planning have led many cities to revert to car-dominated designs five years after the pandemic.
- A new modeling method developed by CU Boulder researchers helped scientists understand why kelp forests returned more slowly in Southern California than in British Columbia.
- Savannah Lehnert will help cacao farmers in Brazil balance their economic livelihoods with conservation methods, advancing agroforestry conservation in an intensely biodiverse region.
- New research uncovers the survival strategy juvenile Chinook salmon adopt to migrate to the ocean, providing insight on how to conserve the threatened fish.
- New research analyzed tree rings and fire scars to compare modern fires to those in the past.
- A new review paper published in Science highlights the changes that will occur in the Arctic by 2100 and their far-reaching implications.
- New research reveals how resident algae altered the genome of these fabled sea creatures, allowing them to access more nutrients.
- CIRES researchers provide answers to the lingering questions one might have following urban wildfires.
- Relatives of the llama are dropping dung as they venture into higher elevations in the Andes Mountains, providing a nutrient-rich environment for life to thrive despite glacier loss.
- CU Boulder economist Alessandro Peri makes the case that empowering the young can meaningfully affect climate policy and climate outcomes.