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ENVS affiliate, Associate Professor Beth Osnes, discuss with CU Boulder Today her creation and direction of Shine, a musical performance about how energy, climate and humans are interrelated. Set against a hand-drawn backdrop representing 300 million years of earth鈥檚 geologic history, youngsters dressed in colorful costumes symbolizing plants and insects sing and gambol around the stage. Osnes works is co-founder and co-director of Inside the Greenhouse, an endowed initiative at CU Boulder to celebrate creative climate communication through film, theater, dance and music.
Boulder is the place to be for students who want to study and research issues related to the environment. CU Boulder's earth science and atmospheric science disciplines both ranked No. 1 overall among world universities in the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy's 2018 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS), which was published today. The university also scored highly in a dozen other academic categories, highlighting the breadth of impactful CU Boulder research.
While President Trump鈥檚 decision to leave the Paris climate agreement probably dismayed climate scientists, it did at least provide some interesting data for scholars who study trends in the negotiations. One of those researchers is David Ciplet, an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder who recently returned from the climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany, and who said other nations are mulling ways to fill the climate-leadership vacuum left by the United States.
ENVS PhD candidate, Ashby Leavell explores how to talk about climate change with conservative relatives in this op ed.
Ask someone who gardens what they love most about it, and, research has shown, the answer is almost always the same. 鈥淣o matter where you go in the world, no matter what language they speak, people say there鈥檚 just something about it that makes them feel better,鈥 says Jill Litt, a public health researcher and professor of Environmental Studies at CU Boulder.
Kendziorski is working with Professor Dan Doak, a conservation biologist who studies demography and climate change in relations to alpine plants, and with Doak鈥檚 postdoctoral scientist Megan Peterson. One plant of interest to Doak and which Kendziorski is focusing on this summer is Silene acaulis or moss campion, also called cushion pink. Wasser, a senior in ecology and evolutionary biology, is studying pikas with Research Associate Chris Ray. This is his third summer working with Ray at the research station.
The Brink is a project of Assistant Professor David Ciplet鈥檚 graduate course Power, Justice and Climate Change in the Environmental Studies Program at CU Boulder, in partnership with KGNU and the Just Transition Collaborative. Student's of
By Elizabeth Hernandez, Boulder Daily CameraCU announced the decision Tuesday, with Provost Russell Moore telling the Daily Camera that he made the call for a shift after talking it over with Leigh for about a month and taking Leigh's five-year
By John Bear, Boulder Daily CameraPresident Donald Trump's announcement on Thursday to withdraw the United States from participating in the Paris climate accord is not sitting well with many Boulder-area scientists who say the move will likely have
"Last month, President Trump signed an executive order calling for the Department of Interior to review 56 of the most recently designated national monuments. These national monuments, designated under the 1906 Antiquities Act, aim to protect lands