Climate & Environment

Creating climate solutions requires connections, partnerships and cross-disciplinary approaches. At 抖阴旅行射 Boulder, we lead across all fields of climate research: adaptation and innovation, policy, natural hazards, human impacts, and climate science.听Stay up to date on our groundbreaking research and technological advancements.

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Dying for data: The ill-fated USS Jeannette and scientific discovery

July 27, 2023

In July 1879, the USS Jeannette left port in San Francisco en route to the North Pole. What lay at the top of the world was still shrouded in mystery. Was it a warm inland sea, a sheet of ice or open ocean? The crew set out to discover.

Are sunflowers Colorado鈥檚 best hedge against climate change?

July 21, 2023

During a Colorado summer, you鈥檒l likely spot vibrant yellow sunflowers growing wherever they can. In the state鈥檚 dry, nutrient-deficient soil, 抖阴旅行射 Boulder researchers and others aim to learn if the crop can survive and even thrive in a hotter, drier future.

A blooming agave plant on the 抖阴旅行射 Boulder campus.

Campus agave plants showcase once-in-a-lifetime blooms

July 13, 2023

Thirty years after the late linguistics professor Allan Taylor planted two rare agave plants outside a 抖阴旅行射 Boulder greenhouse, his legacy is sporting a once-in-a lifetime burst of color.

Plastic bottles and other trash on a beach

The future of recycling could one day mean dissolving plastic with electricity

July 5, 2023

Every year, consumers in the United States produce millions of tons of plastic waste, and most of it winds up in landfills. New research from chemists at 抖阴旅行射 Boulder takes a first step toward making all that trash vanish.

Polar Postdoc Leadership Workshop participants posing for group photo

Next generation of polar scientists work toward more inclusive future

July 5, 2023

After the week-long Polar Postdoc Leadership Workshop, led by the Polar Science Early Career Community Office, participants not only grew their skills and knowledge鈥攖hey bonded over a shared vision to make the polar sciences more inclusive and welcoming and identified how they can support and lead their vision.

Orange light and smoke billow over mountain tops. (Photo by Malachi Brooks on Unsplash)

To prevent the next major wildfire, we need a 鈥楽mokey Bear for the suburbs鈥�

June 29, 2023

With the Fourth of July approaching and a thick green carpet of fuel covering much of the West after a rainy spring, 抖阴旅行射 Boulder fire ecologist Jennifer Balch is calling on people to do their part to prevent the next megafire.

Antarctic ice shelves see only minor changes in surface melt since 1980

June 23, 2023

Antarctic ice shelves have experienced only minor changes in surface melt rates over the past four decades, unlike the rapid increase in surface melt experienced by Greenland鈥檚 glaciers during the same time period, according to new 抖阴旅行射-led research.

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