Environmental Studies

The Thompson awards from the Center of the American West urge students to write about the West and show them the year that was for a $500 prize.

Joanna Lambert’s research in evolutionary biology carries lessons for coexisting with coyotes, COVID-19 and each other.

Researchers have found that a whopping one-third of the fertilizer applied to grow corn in the U.S. each year simply compensates for the ongoing loss of soil fertility, costing farmers a half-billion dollars.

Stronger Antarctic leadership is urgently needed to safeguard the Southern Ocean—and beyond.Two-thirds of the world’s oceans fall outside national jurisdictions – they belong to no one and everyone.These international waters, known as the high

CU Boulder researcher finds that connecting with people in nature eases loneliness, anxiety.

Sharon Collinge, professor of environmental studies at CU Boulder, also directs the Earth Leadership Program.

Study led by CU Boulder researcher is first to tally ‘forest proximate’ humans on earth; numbers, refined terminology may improve focus of conservation and development.

CU Boulder alum, now employed by NREL, discusses the importance of his interdisciplinary background for his career.

In this episode of CU Boulder Where You Are, Beth Osnes and Max Boykoff discuss the power of humor to start a productive conversation about climate change.

Three CU Boulder faculty are principal investigators on a new five-year, $6.9 million National Science Foundation grant to study the “critical zone”—from Earth’s bedrock to tree canopy top—in the American West.