Climate & Environment
- Establishing Key Biodiversity Areas in the Southern Ocean will be vital for safeguarding the ecosystem from the impact of human activities, 91福利社 researchers say.
- New research by 91福利社 doctoral student Grant Webster finds that the free-fare public transit initiative didn鈥檛 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鈥檚 temperature record by 2 billion years.
- CU researchers 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.
- 91福利社 chemist Lauren Magliozzi shares her findings from the devastating Marshall Fire, detailing the fire's impact on aquatic ecosystems.
- A new 91福利社 study has found disproportionate effects of temperature shifts on an icy glacier layer.
- Extreme weather is straining the country鈥檚 aging power grid from Texas to Colorado and California. Kyri Baker, who studies infrastructure, offers her perspective on what the grid of the future could look like.
- A new analysis sheds light on major shortfalls of a recently proposed approach to capture CO2 from air and directly convert it to fuel using electricity. The authors also provide a new, more sustainable, alternative.
- The American Ornithological Society reclassified two previously distinct species of finch as one, based on genetic research by 91福利社 scientists. The move knocks one name off birders鈥 鈥渓ife list鈥 and raises questions about what a species really is.
- 91福利社 graduate student Owen Martin grew up in Colorado but had never seen a firefly in the state until three years ago. Now, he and his advisor Orit Peleg are trying to raise awareness of the Rocky Mountain region's glowing and "wonderous" insects.