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Wildfire’s destructive impact doesn’t stop at the forest’s edge.

Each year, ranchers in Colorado and the Mountain West face difficult decisions regarding drought.

As Hurricane Harvey bore down on Houston in August 2017, the Twitterverse lit up with satellite images warning of danger and 140-character exchanges between worried residents.

It takes a massive amount of energy to run the 400 or so labs at the heart of the campus research enterprise: roughly enough to power more than 5,000 homes.

Could perfumes, shampoos, deodorants and household cleaners pollute as much as an SUV?

Deep in the jungle of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, assistant professor of archaeology Sarah Kurnick is infusing traditional archaeological approaches with fresh ideas about sustainability and community engagement while studying an ancient Maya site. 

Call it high-altitude kombucha: CU Â鶹ӰԺ biologist Valerie McKenzie has developed a probiotic solution that inoculates boreal toads from a virulent infection.

Current wildfire policy can’t adequately protect people, homes and ecosystems from the longer, hotter fire seasons caused by climate change, according to a recent research paper led by CU Â鶹ӰԺ.

As the top public university for NASA research funding, CU Â鶹ӰԺ is famous for aerospace.

Most particle physics experiments take place in a lab, but these days, JILA professor Dana Anderson prefers taking his to the air.