Climate & Environment
- Scientists used fossil groundwater and model simulations to identify regional differences in aquifer response during the Last Glacial Termination, a period of warming, ice sheet loss and major environmental change that occurred between 20,000 and 11,000 years ago.
- Ecologist Katharine Suding shares insights on the increasing risks of grassland fire across the country.
- Robert Brakenridge has spent decades trying to understand how distant exploding stars may have affected Earth's atmosphere in the past. A new analysis indicates the need for continued research in the field.
- At a regional plenary of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit, co-sponsored by CU ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß, speakers called for action that centers human stories, local wisdom and nature-based solutions to break the cycle of environmental injustice.
- A field campaign on an Oklahoma feedlot that aimed to measure aerosols in the atmosphere yielded surprising results.
- American honeybee colonies have declined by more than 60% this year. A CU ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß entomologist is racing to find a solution.
- CU ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß research sheds light on communities in Brazil facing ongoing marginalization despite legal land rights.
- A study of the 2021 Marshall Fire in ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß County shows that community policies are as important, if not more so, than homeowner actions.
- In a new paper, Alton Byers and his coauthors identified a rapidly forming glacial lake in the Kanchenjunga Conservation Area. The researchers model potential flood scenarios and suggest mitigation measures.
- Climate change is increasing sulfate runoff, likely causing soil microbes to produce the most toxic form of mercury.