Climate & Environment
- Deforestation and habitat fragmentation can decrease transmission of a parasitic nematode in a particular species of Australian lizard, new research shows.
- Research from 27 global institutions including CU Boulder shows that extreme heat damages health and livelihood and threatens to overwhelm hospitals.
- New research highlights a previously underexplored consequence: a wake effect from upwind wind farms that can reduce the energy production of their downwind neighbors.
- A CIRES-led study uncovers a surprisingly strong connection between climate and U.S. crime rates.
- As humans evolved and expanded, so too did barn swallows, new research suggests.
- While synonymous with death, tombstones host microbial life in profusion, new CU Boulder research finds.
- The U.S. Geological Survey has selected a CU Boulder team to host the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center for the next five years.
- A massive research and education effort on energy and environmental issues led by CU Boulder engineering faculty is ending after a five-year run with significant results relevant to Colorado's growing energy industry.
- Arctic sea ice has likely reached its minimum extent for the year and ties with 2008 and 2010 as the sixth lowest in the nearly 40-year satellite record.
- Ice loss detected in a Russian glacier has challenged scientists' assumptions about the stability of the cold ice caps dotting Earth's high latitudes.