Climate Change

CU experts explain why and how voting rights, climate change and abortion became rallying calls for political parties.

Human activity is gradually increasing Earth’s temperature and causing more frequent natural disasters.

Human activity is gradually increasing Earth’s temperature and causing more frequent natural disasters.

Human activity is gradually increasing Earth’s temperature and causing more frequent natural disasters.

Human activity is gradually increasing Earth’s temperature and causing more frequent natural disasters.

Human activity is gradually increasing Earth’s temperature and causing more frequent natural disasters.

When Lori Peek (PhDSoc’05) started graduate school in the Department of Sociology in 1999, natural disasters were still largely framed as “acts of God” — isolated events only occasionally impacting an unlucky few, with everyone equally vulnerable to their wrath. Today, with climate change fueling bigger and more frequent wildfires,...

Human activity is gradually increasing Earth’s temperature and causing more frequent natural disasters. These stories examine the ways CU is researching the impacts of climate change on human life and human rights.

Human activity is gradually increasing Earth’s temperature and causing more frequent natural disasters.

Small mountain mammals like marmots and ground squirrels are experiencing the effects of rapid climate change.