Climate & Environment
New CIRES-led research shows that common synthetic materials used in homes, like plastics and insulation, can release harmful compounds into the air when they burn.
An analysis of more than 20,000 power plants across 92 democratic countries found that in nations with more political incivility, power plants emit more carbon.
After more than a decade of research by primatologists at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder and their colleagues, a major environmental organization has changed the conservation status of an unusual, and petite, species of primate that lives in southern Africa.
Despite rising impacts, climate change received less attention in media around the world in 2025. ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder sociologist Max Boykoff shares the reasons and implications.
The College of Communication, Media, Design and Information's Water Desk has expanded the services it offers to resource-starved reporters who need help covering complex stories around the Colorado River and climate change.
Research from ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder environmental economist Grant Webster finds that wildfire risk mitigation and proactive evacuation preparation are complementary.
First-of-its-kind study assesses how health benefits of aggressive climate policy travel across international borders.
Researchers at the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research Program have spent more than three decades studying ecosystems in one of the world’s most hostile environments.
Off the west coast of Australia, some seawater has lost nearly a third of its salty area in recent decades, as climate change-related current shifts push more fresh water into the region.
A new paper from Irina Overeem and Ethan Pierce describes how icebergs export Greenlandic sediment into the Arctic Ocean—and how that process might change in the future.