Climate & Environment
An atmospheric river brought warm, humid air to the coldest and driest corner of the planet in 2022, pushing temperatures 70 degrees above average. A new Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder-led study reveals what happened to Antarctica’s smallest animals.
The new international annual review of the world’s climate showed that 2023 was the warmest year on record. A Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder scientist weighs in on how the rising global greenhouse gas concentration is driving climate change and what we can do.
In July, Denver and the northern Front Range failed to meet the national air quality standards for ozone amid a nine-day streak of ozone pollution alerts. Lindsey Anderson, a Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder atmospheric chemist, offers her perspective on why this is important.
Decades after his voyage on the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin became fascinated by why plants move as they grow—spinning and twisting into corkscrews. Now, more than 150 years later, a new study may have solved the riddle.
Establishing Key Biodiversity Areas in the Southern Ocean will be vital for safeguarding the ecosystem from the impact of human activities, Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder researchers say.
New research by Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder doctoral student Grant Webster finds that the free-fare public transit initiative didn’t reduce ground-level ozone but may have other benefits.
Geologists Lizzy Trower and Carl Simpson have won $1 million in support from the W.M. Keck Foundation to try to solve an evolutionary puzzle and extend Earth’s temperature record by 2 billion years.
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØresearchers are taking part in a national project to identify sources of urban air pollution. The data will contribute to research related to both health and climate.
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder chemist Lauren Magliozzi shares her findings from the devastating Marshall Fire, detailing the fire's impact on aquatic ecosystems.
A new Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder study has found disproportionate effects of temperature shifts on an icy glacier layer.