Professor Mitton discusses the role climate change has played in creating the mountain pine beetle epidemic. Small shifts in climate have expanded the geographic range in which pine beetles can thrive and extended their life cycle from one generation per year to two. He also explains a surge in the...
"Water: A Zero Sum Game" takes viewers high into the Rocky Mountain snowpack as researchers dig snow pits to explore the source of our water supply. 'The snowpack acts as a storage system, or bank account," snow hydrologist Mark Williams explains, "it releases water slowly into the watershed as it...
Challenges for the Colorado River Basin, includes Doug Kenney, Ph.D. Director, Western Water Policy Program at University of Colorado Law School. Jeff Lukas, Senior Research Associate, Western Water Assessment, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder.
CU Boulder researcher, Phil Taylor, investigates ways into making Palm Oil a more environmentally sustainable product. He explores Palm Oil methane capture technology to provide renewable energy for small tropical communities.
