Geography
New grant supports interdisciplinary research on "the critical zone” and the future of Western waterThree CU Boulder faculty are principal investigators on a new five-year, $6.9 million National Science Foundation grant to study the “critical zone”—from Earth’s bedrock to tree canopy top—in the American West.
A new study of 22 burn areas across 710 square miles found that forests are not recovering from fires as well as they used to, and many regions will be unsuitable for ponderosa pine and Douglas fir in the coming decades.
What is happening in the Arctic is very real and should serve as a warning to everyone who cares about the future of the planet as we know itThe Arctic heat wave that sent Siberian temperatures soaring to around 100 degrees Fahrenheit on the first
New CU Boulder research provides ‘unprecedented’ opportunity to study history and evolution of human land-use and development in the United States
'I still have nightmares about it ... I lost a lot of friends who I’ll probably never see again. I don’t even know if they’re alive or dead.'
Climate has played a small but important role in fueling civil wars and other conflicts, CU Boulder and other researchers find.
Mark Serreze talks about being named a Distinguished Professor, how he got interested in the cryosphere, and why you should care about snow and ice.
Climate change has played a small but important role in fueling civil wars and other armed conflicts in recent decades and will play an exponentially greater role in the future, according to a new study.
CU Boulder geographer gathered evidence from war-torn (and joke-riddled) Afghanistan.
Two researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are exploring human settlement and urbanization patterns in the United States between 1810 and 2015 using a groundbreaking new dataset from Zillow.