Climate & Environment
Engineering PhD student Natalie Hull is researching different wavelengths of ultraviolet radiation that will best kill dangerous pathogens in the water we drink.
A report on critical connections between climate change and human health concludes the delayed response to climate change in the past 25 years has jeopardized human life around the globe.
A rash of earthquakes in Colorado and New Mexico between 2008 and 2010 was likely due to fluids pumped deep underground during oil and gas wastewater disposal, says a new study.
CU Boulder engineers are testing a new technique to clean up western Colorado sites contaminated by uranium mining.
CU Boulder and collaborating partners have been awarded $2.9 million from the National Science Foundation to create a digital archive of more than 1.7 million plant specimens native to the southern Rocky Mountain region.
Jason Boardman has made headlines studying the interactions between people's genes and their environment. Now he's helping launch a first-of-its-kind program to train young scholars in the cross-disciplinary field.
An NSIDC-led project will explore how indigenous peoples living in the arid U.S. Southwest and icy Arctic are adapting to rapid social and environmental changes that affect food security.
Caterpillars have far less bacteria and fungi inhabiting their guts than other organisms, making them an evolutionary oddity in the animal kingdom.
A team of CU Boulder scientists is working to unlock a longstanding ecological mystery: barren patches of ground in Africa's grasslands known as fairy circles.
This summer, undergraduates have been working in deep freeze conditions, cutting up ice cores to analyze ancient climate information.