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Reducing the amount of desert dust swept onto snowy Rocky Mountain peaks could help Western water managers deal with the challenges of a warmer future, according to a new study led by researchers at NOAA’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ( CIRES ) at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder .

America’s once-abundant tallgrass prairies—which have all but disappeared—were home to dozens of species of grasses that could grow to the height of a man, hundreds of species of flowers, and herds of roaming bison. For the first time, a research team led by the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder has gotten a peek at another vitally important but rarely considered community that also once called the tallgrass prairie home: the diverse assortment of microbes that thrived in the dark, rich soils beneath the grass.

The heat is on, at least in the Arctic. Average summer temperatures in the Eastern Canadian Arctic during the last 100 years are higher now than during any century in the past 44,000 years and perhaps as long ago as 120,000 years, says a new University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder study.

The heat is on, at least in the Arctic. Average summer temperatures in the Eastern Canadian Arctic during the last 100 years are higher now than during any century in the past 44,000 years and perhaps as long ago as 120,000 years, says a new University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder study.

A new University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder study indicates drought high in the northern Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ mountains is the primary trigger of a massive spruce beetle outbreak that is tied to long-term changes in sea-surface temperatures from the Northern Atlantic Ocean, a trend that is expected to continue for decades.

A pair of breakthroughs in the field of silicon photonics by researchers at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Micron Technology Inc. could allow for the trajectory of exponential improvement in microprocessors that began nearly half a century ago—known as Moore’s Law—to continue well into the future, allowing for increasingly faster electronics, from supercomputers to laptops to smartphones.

A University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder professor has been awarded a three-year, $3.6 million grant from the Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a new process to produce magnesium that can be used to make lightweight vehicle parts.

A cutting-edge battery technology developed at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder that could allow tomorrow’s electric vehicles to travel twice as far on a charge is now closer to becoming a commercial reality. Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ’s Technology Transfer Office has completed an agreement with Solid Power LLC—a Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder spinoff company founded by Se-Hee Lee and Conrad Stoldt, both associate professors of mechanical engineering—for the development and commercialization of an innovative solid-state rechargeable battery.

The University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder has launched a flood resource website and is hosting a resource table to help students, faculty and staff who are still dealing with effects from the flood.

Scientists have uncovered strong evidence that soot, or black carbon, sent into the air by a rapidly industrializing Europe, likely caused the abrupt retreat of mountain glaciers in the European Alps.