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Lindsey Anderson in the lab

Breathing in the Front Range isn’t always easy. Understanding ozone pollution

Aug. 16, 2024

In July, Denver and the northern Front Range failed to meet the national air quality standards for ozone amid a nine-day streak of ozone pollution alerts. Lindsey Anderson, a CU Boulder atmospheric chemist, offers her perspective on why this is important.

Several sunflowers grow in a field

Why do plants wiggle? New study provides answers

Aug. 15, 2024

Decades after his voyage on the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin became fascinated by why plants move as they grow—spinning and twisting into corkscrews. Now, more than 150 years later, a new study may have solved the riddle.

A group of adelie penguins on iceberg

Southern Ocean’s hidden treasures: Scientists identify crucial wildlife conservation sites

Aug. 14, 2024

Establishing Key Biodiversity Areas in the Southern Ocean will be vital for safeguarding the ecosystem from the impact of human activities, CU Boulder researchers say.

Public bus in Denver

Free bus fare didn’t yield better air

Aug. 13, 2024

New research by CU Boulder doctoral student Grant Webster finds that the free-fare public transit initiative didn’t reduce ground-level ozone but may have other benefits.

Geologists Lizzy Trower and Carl Simpson

Why did a frozen Earth coincide with an evolutionary spurt?

Aug. 12, 2024

Geologists Lizzy Trower and Carl Simpson have won $1 million in support from the W.M. Keck Foundation to try to solve an evolutionary puzzle and extend Earth’s temperature record by 2 billion years.

Seonsik Yun and Doug Day stand on the roof of La Casa, an air quality research site in Denver.

Rooftop science: Surveying Denver’s air

July 31, 2024

CU researchers are taking part in a national project to identify sources of urban air pollution. The data will contribute to research related to both health and climate.

A view of a burned neighborhood in Lousiville,CO after the Marshall Fire.

Wildfires don’t just burn. They can also pollute aquatic ecosystems

July 29, 2024

CU Boulder chemist Lauren Magliozzi shares her findings from the devastating Marshall Fire, detailing the fire's impact on aquatic ecosystems.

Icebergs in the Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland

Warming has more impact than cooling on Greenland's ‘firn’

July 26, 2024

A new CU Boulder study has found disproportionate effects of temperature shifts on an icy glacier layer.

Power lines against the sky

Weather-related power outages are on the rise. Here’s why, what to expect in the future

July 23, 2024

Extreme weather is straining the country’s aging power grid from Texas to Colorado and California. Kyri Baker, who studies infrastructure, offers her perspective on what the grid of the future could look like.

Smoke Stacks Against Blue Sky

Converting captured carbon to fuel: Study assesses what’s practical and what’s not

July 22, 2024

A new analysis sheds light on major shortfalls of a recently proposed approach to capture CO2 from air and directly convert it to fuel using electricity. The authors also provide a new, more sustainable, alternative.

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