Students standing near a research rocket that they built.

Flying before walking: the CU Trailblazers

Nov. 2, 2022

Over the course of nine months, the CU Trailblazers built and launched an eight-foot high-powered rocket for the First Nations Launch competition.

Tropical Cyclone Winston in the South Pacific Ocean, west of Fiji. Credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team/Jeff Schmaltz

When it comes to addressing global climate impacts, who should pay?

Oct. 31, 2022

Poor communities and developing countries are disproportionately vulnerable to extreme weather and changing environments. As the costs of global climate action add up, there is growing consensus that the world’s polluters should foot most of the bill. Learn from panelists at the upcoming Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit.

Kera Sherwood-O’Regan

Climate change hits disabled, Indigenous communities hard. Kera Sherwood-O’Regan wants their voices heard

Oct. 21, 2022

As climate change increasingly threatens the environment and the people who depend upon it, Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit panelist Kera Sherwood-O’Regan serves as a vocal advocate not only for her fellow Māori—the Indigenous people of New Zealand—but also for people with disabilities. Learn more about Sherwood-O'Regan and how to get involved in the summit.

Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, center, joins a protest.

Her family lost their farm in Uganda. Now she’s standing up for the future

Oct. 14, 2022

When Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit panelist and activist Hilda Flavia Nakabuye was growing up in Uganda, her family owned a small plantation. Long periods of climate change-fueled drought, interrupted by fierce storms, destroyed most of her family’s chief source of food and income. Learn more about Flavia Nakabuye and the summit.

Pasang Dolma Sherpa

Changed landscape, lost traditions: One Nepali woman’s search for Indigenous solutions to climate change

Oct. 7, 2022

Pasang Dolma Sherpa cherishes any time she can spend in Nepal’s mountainous region, where she grew up in a Sherpa village. But the scenery has changed significantly. Learn about Dolma Sherpa, one of several panelists at the campus's Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit in December.

Painting of three young girls standing in water

3 things to understand about climate justice

Oct. 5, 2022

From increasing droughts and wildfires to polluted air and deforestation, natural disasters have an enormous impact on humans, including Indigenous ways of life. CU faculty shared insights and research at a recent event—read three key takeaways.

Yeb Saño

Yeb Saño is confronting human rights violations that fuel climate change

Sept. 30, 2022

For Yeb Saño, the effects of climate change became tragically clearer on Nov. 8, 2013, when Super Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in Southeast Asia. Learn more about Saño, a panelist at the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit, and the experiences that shaped him.

Tia Kennedy

Why this Indigenous rights activist doesn't take clean water for granted

Sept. 21, 2022

Millions of people don’t think twice when turning on the tap, but Indigenous activist and Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit panelist Tia Kennedy never takes a glass of water for granted. As a member of both the Oneida Nation of the Thames and Walpole Island First Nation, her connection to water is ancient. Learn more about Kennedy and how to get involved in the summit.

Emily Nocito (left) and Virginia Weiskopf (right) at a Greenpeace event

CU «Ƶ students defend the high seas

Sept. 8, 2022

Senior Virginia Weiskopf and doctoral candidate Emily Nocito, both in environmental studies, headed to the United Nations to research marine conservation.

Mountain road in Southeastern Colorado

Faculty tour of Southeastern Colorado sparks new connections

Aug. 30, 2022

Twelve CU «Ƶ colleagues boarded a small bus bound for Pueblo, La Junta, Trinidad and Walsenburg, kicking off the inaugural Community Perspectives Tour.

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