Climate & Environment
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.
The Water Desk, a journalism initiative at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Center for Environmental Journalism, has awarded its first grants to support journalists and media outlets covering Western water issues and the Colorado River Basin.
A lack of tree seedling establishment following recent wildfires is limiting coniferous forest recovery in the western U.S., new research finds.
Sea ice hit the second lowest point on record this year, and that’s a big deal from the North Pole to Texas. The Brainwaves podcast breaks it down with Walt Meier and Twila Moon of The National Snow and Ice Data Center.
After a wildfire, rainfall carries organic contaminants into nearby watersheds, resulting in added filtration costs downstream.
Boulder is part of a new $100 million interdisciplinary partnership to address critical water security issues in the United States over the next five years, the U.S. Department of Energy announced Monday.
Loaded with research equipment and Boulder scientists, the RV Polarstern icebreaker is steaming towards the central Arctic, searching for the perfect parking spot next to an ice floe.
The National Snow and Ice Data Center announced Monday that Arctic sea ice reached its likely minimum extent on Sept. 18, 2019.