Environmental Studies
- CU Boulder ecologist Karen Bailey, who serves on the Colorado Parks & Wildlife Commission, aims to listen to advocates for predators and also ranchers and farmers.
- As part of their capstone project for the Master’s of the Environment program, three graduate students worked with local community to create a plan for the Mayhoffer Farm’s ongoing success.
- A new paper out of the CU Boulder argues it may be time to stop hyper-focusing on economic growth as a leading indicator of a society’s success, because we may be headed for a long-run decline in growth this century, whether we like it or not.
- Record-breaking fires over the past decade suggest the western U.S. has entered a new era of megafires.Fire itself is not the problem – it has been characteristic of the North American West for millennia. The problem is when fires, fueled by dry and
- Climate change and other environmental stresses have increasingly become drivers of displacement,Climate change is upending people’s lives around the world, but when droughts, floods or sea level rise force them to leave their countries, people
- This year’s recipients of the notable College of Arts and Sciences’ award are especially distinct, the chair of the award committee notesSeventeen exceptional undergraduates are this year’s recipients of the Jacob Van Ek scholarship, one of the
- Working for a better climate won’t be easy, but will always be right, Rhiana Gunn-Wright tells CU Boulder environmental studies graduates.
- Renae Marshall, the College of Arts and Sciences’ Outstanding Graduate for spring 2021, produced an ‘impressive’ thesis examining the fate of more than 700 decarbonization bills in the past five years.
- CU Boulder’s Stand Up for Climate Comedy Show will air on Earth Day, April 22.
- The Thompson awards from the Center of the American West urge students to write about the West and show them the year that was for a $500 prize.