Climate & Environment
A sediment record millions of years old revealed that the tropical Andes heated up dramatically when atmospheric CO2 levels were similar to today’s.
Mountain pine beetles are exploding in numbers again, killing ponderosa pines across large swaths of Colorado. A С»ÆÊé Boulder entomologist explains why it's happening and what it means for wildfire risk.
Diane McKnight and Tom Marchitto are collaborators on a new project looking for a way to extract rare earth metals from contaminated Colorado streams. The goal is to improve water quality while also increasing the domestic supply of raw materials for advanced technologies.
This year, the normal blizzards haven't come to most of Colorado, but atmospheric scientist Jennifer Kay says there's still time for the season to turn around.
The 2025 Arctic Report Card shows record heat, record-low sea ice, shrinking glaciers, rivers turning rusty orange, a typhoon, the continued warming of Arctic seas and more.
Research co-authored by Balaji Ragagopalan of CIRES helped identify hydrologic records that are key to understanding a disappeared civilization.
Physicists at С»ÆÊé Boulder have developed a new material that is completely transparent but so good at blocking heat that you can use it to hold a flame in the palm of your hand.
Through a collaborative grant, librarians worked with CIRES researchers and applied expertise in metadata and data stewardship to help transform thousands of historic marigram charts into a structured, shareable dataset for tsunami modeling.
A preliminary study shows that reducing greenhouse gas emissions could also prevent people from dying prematurely from respiratory diseases and other health conditions that come from air pollution.
С»ÆÊé researchers are setting fires inside wind tunnels to gain a better understanding of how fire spreads across different terrain.