Climate & Environment
- A summit underway at CU Boulder through March 28 is bringing an estimated 800 people from more than 40 countries to plan for the future of the Arctic.
- For the first time, scientists described a hummingbird chick potentially mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to avoid getting eaten.
- A new study found racial and socioeconomic disparities in where odor-emitting marijuana grow houses and other malodorous factories are located in Denver and in how communities report these issues.
- Environmental designer Kevin Krizek shares how systemic barriers and status-quo planning have led many cities to revert to car-dominated designs five years after the pandemic.
- A new modeling method developed by CU Boulder researchers helped scientists understand why kelp forests returned more slowly in Southern California than in British Columbia.
- Savannah Lehnert will help cacao farmers in Brazil balance their economic livelihoods with conservation methods, advancing agroforestry conservation in an intensely biodiverse region.
- New research uncovers the survival strategy juvenile Chinook salmon adopt to migrate to the ocean, providing insight on how to conserve the threatened fish.
- New research analyzed tree rings and fire scars to compare modern fires to those in the past.
- A new review paper published in Science highlights the changes that will occur in the Arctic by 2100 and their far-reaching implications.
- New research reveals how resident algae altered the genome of these fabled sea creatures, allowing them to access more nutrients.