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A view of a path leading up to the Flatirons

Grant funds climate resilience in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming

Sept. 27, 2021

NOAA has awarded more than $5 million to the CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø-based Western Water Assessment to advance climate resilience in Intermountain West communities facing low river flows, wildfires, heat, drought and major economic transitions.

Two students checking the temperature and pressure settings for a rooftop HVAC unit in the Larson Laboratory (Photo via CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø)

Major research center for green building technology launches at CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø

Sept. 24, 2021

A major research center for sustainable building technology, the Building Energy Smart Technologies (BEST) Center, is a new five-year, multiple-university initiative funded by the National Science Foundation.

The Apple Fire burns north of Beaumont, California in July 2020. (Photo: Brody Hessin via Wikimedia Commons)

New report shows links between air quality, climate change

Sept. 15, 2021

Human-caused emissions of air pollutants fell during last year’s COVID-19 economic slowdowns, improving air quality in some parts of the world, while wildfires and sand and dust storms in 2020 worsened air quality in other places, according to a new report with CIRES co-authors.

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State of the Climate Report confirms 2020 among 3 warmest years on record

Aug. 31, 2021

A new report on the global climate confirmed 2020 was among the three warmest years in records dating to the mid-1800s, despite a cooling La Niña influence in the second half of the year. Several CIRES/CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø experts contributed to the report.

A view of the Fourmile Canyon Fire burning west of Â鶹¹ÙÍø in 2010.

CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø receives $1.1 million in EPA grants to reduce public exposure to wildland fire smoke

Aug. 23, 2021

Researchers have been awarded $1.1 million from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for two projects to help school districts and communities reduce exposure to harmful pollution from wildland fire smoke.

A panorama of the Grand Canyon

Geologists dig into Grand Canyon’s mysterious gap in time

Aug. 23, 2021

Hundreds of millions of years' worth of rocks have gone missing from the Grand Canyon's geologic record. Geologists are trying to discover why.

Artist's depiction of three new species of fossil condylarths: From left to right, Conacodon hettingeri, Miniconus jeanninae and Beornus honeyi. (Credit: Banana Art Studio)

Paleontologists discover 3 new species of primitive ungulates

Aug. 17, 2021

The new species, mouse- to cat-sized ancestors of today's hoofed animals like cattle and deer, offer scientists a new window into what the American West looked like just after the extinction of the dinosaurs.

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Cities like Paris may be optimal urban form for reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Aug. 13, 2021

Researchers at CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø are part of a newly published study that finds that low-rise, high-density environments like those found in Paris are the optimal urban form when looking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over their whole life cycle.

The aftermath of 2021 floods in Poudre Canyon.

How fire today will impact water tomorrow

July 29, 2021

In light of recent Colorado fires, floods and landslides, CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø Today spoke with environmental experts Fernando Rosario-Ortiz and Ben Livneh about how fire may shape the future of water in the West.

Two fossils lay out on a table

Icy waters of 'Snowball Earth' may have spurred early organisms to grow bigger

July 28, 2021

A new study tackles one of the oldest questions in the history of the planet: How did living organisms get so big?

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