Climate & Environment
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder sociologist Robert Scott highlights an understudied area of wildfire research: How wildland firefighting fatalities affect the people on the front lines.
A Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder mountain geographer explains how rising temperatures are destabilizing mountains and increasing the risk of landslides, glacial floods and other potentially catastrophic hazards around the world.
As climate change drives more frequent and prolonged heat waves, Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder and Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØAnschutz researchers are working with formerly incarcerated people to understand conditions inside prisons and develop ways to reduce health risks.
The federal government just unveiled an aggressive plan to help conserve the mighty Colorado. Will it work? And if not, what will? Water policy veteran Doug Kenney offers insight.
Lon Abbott, who studies how mountains form, explains how Boulder's iconic Flatirons got their shape and why they’re so special even though they're not one of a kind.
A Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder study finds that the symbiotic relationship between alpine plants and underground fungi stays robust to earlier snowmelt driven by warming temperatures.
As climate change drives more intense droughts, new research shows shrinking water supplies can give pathogens such as West Nile virus an edge.
A woeful winter and searing spring have thrust a spotlight on climate journalism. The Water Desk, an initiative of Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder's College of Communication, Media, Design and Information, helps reporters throughout the West cover complex water issues.
Across political ideologies, people in the U.S. overwhelmingly gravitate toward technologies presented as natural and reject those that seem unnatural. The findings offer insight on why some proposed climate solutions fail.
Extreme heat is no longer a rare event, and protecting communities will require coordinated efforts, says geography professor Sara Meerow.