Climate & Environment
Predators not native to Madagascar, such as feral dogs and cats, may pose a serious threat to lemur species—many of which are already facing extinction on this African island.
CU Boulder’s Paul Sutter looks back on the history of the Wilderness Act as it approaches its diamond jubilee.
CU researchers spent 400 hours under water observing these colorful fish in the Caribbean. They learned they’re smarter, and more neighborly, than previously thought.
An atmospheric river brought warm, humid air to the coldest and driest corner of the planet in 2022, pushing temperatures 70 degrees above average. A new CU Boulder-led study reveals what happened to Antarctica’s smallest animals.
The new international annual review of the world’s climate showed that 2023 was the warmest year on record. A CU Boulder scientist weighs in on how the rising global greenhouse gas concentration is driving climate change and what we can do.
In July, Denver and the northern Front Range failed to meet the national air quality standards for ozone amid a nine-day streak of ozone pollution alerts. Lindsey Anderson, a CU Boulder atmospheric chemist, offers her perspective on why this is important.
Decades after his voyage on the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin became fascinated by why plants move as they grow—spinning and twisting into corkscrews. Now, more than 150 years later, a new study may have solved the riddle.
Establishing Key Biodiversity Areas in the Southern Ocean will be vital for safeguarding the ecosystem from the impact of human activities, CU Boulder researchers say.
New research by CU Boulder doctoral student Grant Webster finds that the free-fare public transit initiative didn’t reduce ground-level ozone but may have other benefits.
Geologists Lizzy Trower and Carl Simpson have won $1 million in support from the W.M. Keck Foundation to try to solve an evolutionary puzzle and extend Earth’s temperature record by 2 billion years.