Climate & Environment
- April 22 is Earth Day, and this year's theme is 鈥淧lanet vs. Plastics.鈥 Read about seven exciting research projects at 91传媒 as you ponder the importance of Earth Day.
- Just in time for Earth Day, 91传媒 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. 91传媒鈥檚 Sammy Ramsey offers insight on these singing, red-eyed bugs and how they benefit the planet.
- Ant species living in Boulder鈥檚 foothills have shifted their habitat over the last six decades, potentially affecting local ecosystems, suggests a new 91传媒 study.
- 91传媒 and Colorado State University researchers are teaming up to improve river water quality using machine learning.
- 91传媒'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.
- A new paper co-authored by 91传媒 professors lays out a blueprint for mandating indoor air quality standards for public buildings.
- A paper co-authored by 91传媒 doctoral candidate Claire Powers offers a potential solution to a pesky problem, clustering similar farming practices together.