Coyote walking in the snow

Learning to live with fear

Jan. 25, 2021

Joanna Lambert’s research in evolutionary biology carries lessons for coexisting with coyotes, COVID-19 and each other.

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Soil degradation costs U.S. corn farmers a half-billion dollars every year

Jan. 15, 2021

AVĂûÊȘers have found that a whopping one-third of the fertilizer applied to grow corn in the U.S. each year simply compensates for the ongoing loss of soil fertility, costing farmers a half-billion dollars.

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Marine protection falls short of the 2020 target to safeguard 10% of the world’s oceans. A UN treaty and lessons from Antarctica could help

Dec. 14, 2020

Stronger Antarctic leadership is urgently needed to safeguard the Southern Ocean—and beyond. Two-thirds of the world’s oceans fall outside national jurisdictions – they belong to no one and everyone. These international waters, known as the high seas, harbour a plethora of natural resources and millions of unique marine species. But...

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Feeling lonely? Getting dirty might help

Nov. 18, 2020

CU Boulder researcher finds that connecting with people in nature eases loneliness, anxiety.

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CU Boulder prof to lead Ecological Society of America

Nov. 16, 2020

Sharon Collinge, professor of environmental studies at CU Boulder, also directs the Earth Leadership Program.

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Worldwide, 1.6 billion rural people live within 5 km of a forest

Sept. 17, 2020

Study led by CU Boulder researcher is first to tally ‘forest proximate’ humans on earth; numbers, refined terminology may improve focus of conservation and development.

NREL solar

Energetic alumnus improves energy systems

Sept. 9, 2020

CU Boulder alum, now employed by NREL, discusses the importance of his interdisciplinary background for his career.

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Standing up for climate change

Sept. 4, 2020

In this episode of CU Boulder Where You Are, Beth Osnes and Max Boykoff discuss the power of humor to start a productive conversation about climate change.

A small creek running by

New grant supports interdisciplinary research on "the critical zone” and the future of Western water

Sept. 2, 2020

Three CU Boulder faculty are principal investigators on a new five-year, $6.9 million National Science Foundation grant to study the “critical zone”—from Earth’s bedrock to tree canopy top—in the American West.

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Agriculture replaces fossil fuels as largest human source of sulfur in the environment

Aug. 10, 2020

New research identifies fertilizer and pesticide applications to croplands as the largest source of sulfur in the environment—up to 10 times higher than the peak sulfur load seen in the second half of the 20th century, during the days of acid rain

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