Climate & Environment
- A massive research and education effort on energy and environmental issues led by ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ engineering faculty is ending after a five-year run with significant results relevant to Colorado's growing energy industry.
- Arctic sea ice has likely reached its minimum extent for the year and ties with 2008 and 2010 as the sixth lowest in the nearly 40-year satellite record.
- Ice loss detected in a Russian glacier has challenged scientists' assumptions about the stability of the cold ice caps dotting Earth's high latitudes.
- Hikers and trail runners be warned: Rattlesnakes and other venomous reptiles may bite more people during rainy years than in seasons wracked by drought, a new study shows.
- Side by Side is a community art and science event focused on barn swallows, a declining songbird species that nests exclusively in human-made spaces.
- Degraded alpine ecosystems showed limited recovery years after long-term inputs of human-caused nitrogen air pollution.
- Ozone levels higher across China than in other countries tracking the air pollutant, new NOAA/CIRES research shows.
- A new NOAA and NASA campaign investigates how the temperature of western U.S. wildfires affects the composition of their smoke.
- Flooding caused by rain falling on snowpack could more than double by the end of this century in some areas of the western U.S. and Canada due to climate change.
- Researchers have found a link between gravity waves in the upper and lower Antarctic atmosphere, helping create a clearer picture of global air circulation.