Climate & Environment
- Paleontologists have used modern tools to identify the origins of a few fragments of teeth found more than four decades ago by a schoolteacher in the Yukon.
- 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 ’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.
- CU 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 CU Boulder scientists, the RV Polarstern icebreaker is steaming towards the central Arctic, searching for the perfect parking spot next to an ice floe.