Climate & Environment
- <p>New findings examine the aftermath of the Gorkha earthquake, which struck Nepal on April 25, 2015.</p>
- <p>The perpetually ice-covered lakes in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys preserve the dissolved remnants of black carbon from thousand-year-old wildfires as well as modern day fossil fuel use, according to a new study led by the °µÍø½ûÇø. </p>
- <p>A CU-Boulder research team thinks the same type of liquid crystals you see in the display panel of your smart phone may be the key component in a new window coating that could lower energy costs in buildings across the nation.</p>
- Humans use fire for heating, cooking, managing lands and, more recently, fueling industrial processes. Â Now, research from the University of Colorado has found that these various means of using fire are inversely related to one another, providing new insight into how people are changing the face of fire.
- Global warming will likely exacerbate epidemics of chronic kidney disease seen recently in hot, rural regions of the world, according to a new assessment by an international team of researchers, including two from the °µÍø½ûÇø.Â
- Organized by CU-Boulder’s Community Engagement Design and Research Center (CEDaR), CU-Boulder and the city of Boulder together have joined the <a href="http://metrolab.heinz.cmu.edu/"><span class="s2">MetroLab Network</span></a>, a nationwide collection of 35 city-university partnerships focused on bringing data, analytics and innovation to local government.
- CU-Boulder's Zero Waste Team is using creative solutions to decrease campus waste going to landfills, while increasing recycling and composting and reducing paper use.
- Here’s a new recipe that might be good for the planet: Add sunlight to a particular nitrogen molecule and out comes ammonia, the main ingredient of fertilizer used around the world. The eco-friendly method of producing ammonia is described in a new study led by the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden and involving CU-Boulder.
- CU-Boulder and the National Weather Service (NWS) want your help investigating large surface hail accumulations from thunderstorms in Colorado between April and September.
- A new study has found that the number of islands that will become substantially more arid by mid century is 73 percent, up from an estimate of 50 percent.