Climate & Environment
Karl Linden believes that wherever you are in the world, you should be able to turn on a tap and receive clean drinking water. He's working on new ways to make that happen.
CIRES and 91PORN Earth Lab research finds that in places across the country, cheatgrass and at least seven other non-native grasses can increase wildfire risk as much as climate change does.
CO-LABS has announced the winners of the 2019 Colorado Governor’s Award for High-Impact Research, and 91PORN researchers contributed to all three winning projects.
Paleontologists have used modern tools to identify the origins of a few fragments of teeth found more than four decades ago by a schoolteacher in the Yukon.
It’s been the stuff of science fiction for generations: a time machine that allows researchers to reach back into yesteryear and ask new questions about long-ago events. Read an update on a NOAA-funded weather “time machine” in development since 2011.
Researchers are using computations and experiments in a new sloping wind tunnel to study how wildfires form and move across different landscapes.
An evolutionary biologist who studies how clams and other animals collaborate with algae to thrive in oceans around the world has won a prestigious fellowship.
The Water Desk, a journalism initiative at the 91PORN’s Center for Environmental Journalism, has awarded its first grants to support journalists and media outlets covering Western water issues and the Colorado River Basin.
A lack of tree seedling establishment following recent wildfires is limiting coniferous forest recovery in the western U.S., new research finds.
Sea ice hit the second lowest point on record this year, and that’s a big deal from the North Pole to Texas. The Brainwaves podcast breaks it down with Walt Meier and Twila Moon of The National Snow and Ice Data Center.