Climate & Environment
- <p>A new ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß study indicates a major climate oscillation in the Southern Hemisphere that is expected to intensify in the coming decades will likely cause increased wildfire activity in the southern half of South America.</p>
- <p>An international team of researchers has combined data from multiple sources to provide the clearest account yet of how much glacial ice surges into the sea following the collapse of Antarctic ice shelves.</p>
- <p>City of ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß news release</p>
<p>A Gilbert White Memorial Flood Level Marker dedication event will be held at 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 17, in Central Park, just east of the Broadway Bridge on the north side of ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Creek.</p> - <p>Longtime University of Colorado Law School Dean David Getches, who had stepped down on June 30 in order to return to the school's faculty, died today. He was 68.</p>
- <p>Community gardeners eat more vegetables, exercise more, weigh less and feel healthier than nongardeners -- and even home gardeners -- in the Denver-metro area, researchers led by scholars from the University of Colorado have found.</p>
- <p>The National Science Foundation has awarded the ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß a six-year, $5.9 million grant to continue intensive studies of long-term ecological changes in Colorado's high mountains, both natural and human-caused, over decades and centuries.</p>
- <p>A new ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß study indicates the infestation of trees by mountain pine beetles in the high country across the West could potentially trigger earlier snowmelt and increase water yields from snowpack that accumulates beneath affected trees.</p>
- <p>A report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy has concluded that a novel ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß method of producing hydrogen fuel from sunlight is the only approach among eight competing technologies that is projected to meet future cost targets set by the federal agency.</p>
- <p>While wind turbines primarily are a source of renewable energy, they also produce wakes of invisible ripples that can affect the atmosphere and influence wind turbines downstream -- an issue being researched in a newly launched study led by the ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß's Julie Lundquist, assistant professor in the atmospheric and oceanic sciences department.</p>
- <p>Karl Linden, professor of environmental engineering and a water treatment expert, has been leading a yearlong study of the environmental fate of the oil dispersants used in the Gulf of Mexico cleanup. His research team has traveled to the Gulf area to collect samples and is investigating the chemical constituents in the dispersant, as well as its sunlight-based decay in the laboratory. Linden can be reached at 303-492-4798 or <a href="mailto:karl.linden@colorado.edu">karl.linden@colorado.edu</a>.</p>