Climate & Environment
Researchers at the ATLAS Institute at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder hope their DIY machine will help designers around the world experiment with making their own, sustainable fashion and other textiles from a range of natural ingredients—maybe even the chitin in crab shells or agar-agar from algae.
Professor Edith Zagona provided technical and advisory services during a U.S. Agency for International Development-sponsored visit to Armenia, where rural communities are running out of water due to uncontrolled use by fish farms and pollution caused by untreated mining tailings.
Areas with more paved roads and driveways also had lower numbers of pollinators, which are vital for the local ecosystem, a new Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder study found.
Announced by Gov. Jared Polis, two grants totaling nearly $700,000 through the statewide Geothermal Energy Grant Program will help determine whether geothermal energy is feasible for the campus.
Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder chemist Oana Luca gives her take on how carbon-dependent sectors, such as chemical manufacture and long-haul transportation, can reduce emissions.
A Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ researcher argues setting minimum targets for wildlife conservation inevitably excludes other worthwhile goals, including restoration and ecosystem management.
Khosro Ghobadi-Far is advancing the science of climate change with orbiting satellites through an $800,000 NASA grant.
An engineer, a graduate student and three research scientists are in Greenland braving extreme cold and blustery winds as they install 25 instruments to observe changes in the ice sheet-atmosphere system during the summer melt season.
Researchers led by Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder primatologist Michelle Sauther walked the paths of the Lajuma Research Centre in South Africa at night, keeping an eye out for the glowing eyes of galago primates, or bushbabies. The team's findings reveal troubling hints about how small animals may adapt to extreme temperatures.
For the first time in the field, CIRES-led research shows that ice shelves don’t just buckle under the weight of meltwater lakes—they fracture.