Climate & Environment
When natural disasters strike, people across the United States often depend on timely warnings to get to safety. But in Colorado and many parts of the country, these alerts are a patchwork that vary from county to county.
Waleed Abdalati, a climate scientist and director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, is scheduled to testify before the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. Watch via livestream.
¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder flood modeler Zhi Li explains why current flood warnings can leave communities unprepared—and how high-resolution forecasting and better risk communication could save lives.
A collaboration between four fellows in the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute shows how electricity can be used to impart "superoxide powers" to oxygen gas molecules from air, enabling the efficient recycling of PET plastics.
CIRES-led research used big data to analyze more than 500 river basins—burned and unburned—to create and analyze the first large-scale dataset of post-fire water quality.
Rock glaciers are everywhere—at least in the Colorado Rockies. New research from Robert and Suzanne Anderson investigates how they formed and what benefits they might provide for alpine ecosystems.
¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder's Mortenson Center in Global Engineering & Resilience is building a new model for global water access, one that is grounded in a deep understanding of why so many past efforts have fallen short.
¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder’s Zia Mehrabi is one of three researchers named international champions of the Frontiers Planet Prize for research that finds environmental and social benefits of agricultural diversification.
For six weeks this summer, scientists from across the country, including researchers at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder, are criss-crossing the Great Plains to investigate how hailstorms form—and how homeowners and builders can protect their properties.
This summer marks the 50th anniversary of the movie "Jaws," which made generations of audiences afraid to go in the water again. It also created a lot of misconceptions about sharks, says ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder biologist Andrew Martin.