Climate & Environment
- A CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ tribal advisor discuss how Western science can work with Indigenous people to improve relationships, understanding, and research across cultures.
- Climate change from greenhouse gas emissions could make extreme El Niño events more frequent, according to new research co-led by CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ.
- Luke Runyon, co-director of CMCI’s Water Desk, earned a national Murrow Award for an in-depth podcast series on the declining Colorado River.
- After hosting the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit on campus in 2022, CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ remains a committed educational partner and will be a co-host of the 2025 event in Oxford, England.
- CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ researcher and team have discovered why lithium-ion batteries, which power most electronic devices, lose capacity over time. The findings could enable the development of electric vehicles that go far longer without needing a charge.
- New research reveals that current krill populations in the Southern Ocean may be insufficient to support the full recovery of whale species if krill harvesting continues at current rates.
- Predators not native to Madagascar, such as feral dogs and cats, may pose a serious threat to lemur species—many of which are already facing extinction on this African island.
- CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ’s Paul Sutter looks back on the history of the Wilderness Act as it approaches its diamond jubilee.
- CU researchers spent 400 hours under water observing these colorful fish in the Caribbean. They learned they’re smarter, and more neighborly, than previously thought.
- An atmospheric river brought warm, humid air to the coldest and driest corner of the planet in 2022, pushing temperatures 70 degrees above average. A new CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ-led study reveals what happened to Antarctica’s smallest animals.