Babs Buttenfield

"From Outsiders to Innkeepers in China’s Sleepy Countryside" Read New York Times article

To many observers, East Africa's Maasai pastoralists hunt lions for two distinct reasons: to retaliate against lions that kill livestock or to engage in a cultural rite of passage. But that binary view reflects mistranslations of Maasai terms and simplification of their cultural traditions and their relationship with wildlife, a...

The devastating drought of 2009 in northern Tanzania generated new coping strategies by Maasai people, suggesting that Maasai with more money and social connections are better able than their poorer, less-connected neighbors to endure extreme events such as drought and, potentially, climate change, a team of University of Colorado Boulder...

A 'metastudy' of 60 other studies suggests that there is a clear link between the climate and violence. Global warming raises the specter of more conflict, especially in Africa. Read article in The Christian Science Monitor

Miles Offshore, Are Lighthouse Cribs Beginning to Rot from Air Exposure? Professor Peter Blanken's research on the Great Lakes takes a new look at Winter Evaporation as Key Process in Water Levels. This research is featured in an article from the July 4, 2013 The St. Ignace News.

Waleed Abdalati has been named the new director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES, a joint institute of the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Abdalati is a CIRES Fellow, a CU-Boulder professor of geography and director of the CIRES...

This fellowship is awarded by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), Eurasia Program.

“Water: A Zero Sum Game” has been nominated by the Heartland Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for an Emmy Award in the “Environment: Program/Feature” category. Produced by the Office University Outreach’s Learn More About Climate Initiative, this five-minute video investigates how climate change is threatening...

Monica T. Rother and Thomas T. Veblen receive a Colorado Mountain Club Foundation Fellowship

Joel was awarded a summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship to study Guaraní in Paraguay from the Duke University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies