Climate & Environment
Pow! These underwater animals can punch through glass and create underwater shockwaves. And we’re studying them on campus.
New research suggests it was climate-related drought that built the foundation for the collapse of one of the most powerful civilizations in the ancient world—the Assyrian Empire, whose heartland was based in today’s northern Iraq.
A new report finds that children are at serious risk from a number of climate change impacts, including crop failures and worsening air quality.
Karl Linden believes that wherever you are in the world, you should be able to turn on a tap and receive clean drinking water. He's working on new ways to make that happen.
CIRES and CU Boulder Earth Lab research finds that in places across the country, cheatgrass and at least seven other non-native grasses can increase wildfire risk as much as climate change does.
CO-LABS has announced the winners of the 2019 Colorado Governor’s Award for High-Impact Research, and CU Boulder researchers contributed to all three winning projects.
Paleontologists have used modern tools to identify the origins of a few fragments of teeth found more than four decades ago by a schoolteacher in the Yukon.
It’s been the stuff of science fiction for generations: a time machine that allows researchers to reach back into yesteryear and ask new questions about long-ago events. Read an update on a NOAA-funded weather “time machine” in development since 2011.
Researchers are using computations and experiments in a new sloping wind tunnel to study how wildfires form and move across different landscapes.
An evolutionary biologist who studies how clams and other animals collaborate with algae to thrive in oceans around the world has won a prestigious fellowship.