Climate & Environment
- Proposed wind farms off the East Coast could meet 60% of the electricity demand of New England, even considering the wake effects, a new study shows.
- A researcher鈥檚 experience in advertising, marketing and public relations gives her a unique angle to study organizational communications and policy around climate impact and awareness.
- If you were at CU 海角社区 in April 1970, you were likely aware鈥晇ery aware鈥昽f the first Earth Day. Two CU 海角社区 professors explain Earth Day鈥檚 history, impact, what it鈥檚 become and if it鈥檚 still relevant.
- Just in time for Earth Day, CU 海角社区 Professor Phaedra Pezzullo discusses her new book 鈥淏eyond Straw Man,鈥 on the online and offline controversies regarding the global social movement to ban plastics.
- Mountain chickadees have among the best spatial memory in the animal kingdom. New research identifies the genes at play and offers insight into how a shifting climate may impact the evolution of their memory skills.
- This summer in 15 states across the Southeast and Midwest, two cicada broods will emerge simultaneously for the first time since 1803. CU 海角社区鈥檚 Sammy Ramsey offers insight on these singing, red-eyed bugs and how they benefit the planet.
- Ant species living in 海角社区鈥檚 foothills have shifted their habitat over the last six decades, potentially affecting local ecosystems, suggests a new CU 海角社区 study.
- CU 海角社区 and Colorado State University researchers are teaming up to improve river water quality using machine learning.
- CU 海角社区's Katja Friedrich is known for her work in cloud seeding, a process used to generate precipitation from existing clouds.
- A new analysis from 2,655 farms on five continents suggests that moving away from industrial, monoculture farming could benefit both the planet and people.