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Protecting, Preserving and Restoring Nature’s Systems
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (224+ words) Fifty-five years ago, Mike McCoy (A&S’64) served as a veterinarian in Imperial Beach, California, while also volunteering with his wife, Patricia, to work to protect the Tijuana River Estuary in southern California from development. Their years as dedicated coastal…...
Recent grad finds purpose among the gibbons
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (1210+ words) Asian studies alumnus Lucas Lowenfish, soon to become a Peace Corps volunteer in Madagascar, experienced ‘a big trajectory change’ during Primates of Vietnam study abroad program Before the sun rises in Cát Tiên National Park in Vietnam, the forest is…...
Green Suits: Sustainable Fashion
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (138+ words) Green Suits developed as a project through “Inside the Greenhouse,” a CU initiative for creative climate communication. This push was co-founded and co-directed by Beth Osnes, Max Boykoff, Phaedra Pezzullo, and Rebecca Safran. Supported by Sarah Fahmy, Green Suits participants…...
Making a political turn in the fight for animal rights
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (958+ words) A new journal article by CU Boulder PhD student Dayton Martindale argues that animal rights isn’t just about an absence of suffering—it’s about giving them agency As a second grader, Dayton Martindale was pretty sure he knew what his…...
Simple actions to reduce Boulder Creek contamination
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (324+ words) At CU Boulder, we are fortunate to have beautiful waterways, including Boulder Creek, integrated into our campus ecosystem. Keeping these waterways healthy requires our collective effort. Boulder Creek is considered an impaired waterway by the state of Colorado due to…...
Why whales became giants: How earth system models reveal surprising connections between volcanic activity, climate change and marine life
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (567+ words) Whales were not always such massive creatures. Millions of years ago, they were much smaller. So what caused them to evolve into the largest animals on the planet? ATLAS associate research professor Pedro DiNezio helped an interdisciplinary team of researchers…...
Tiny rodent-like mammals roamed the ancient Arctic, outlasted the dinosaurs
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (445+ words) A reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous paleoenvironment of Alaska. A potential multituberculate animal is illustrated in the lower right corner. (Credit: James Havens) Today’s Arctic may feel remote and desolate, but more than 70 million years ago, it was a surprisingly…...
Hot ponds can help amphibians fight infection—or make things worse
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (909+ words) Amphibian populations, including frogs, toads, salamanders and newts, have been declining globally since the 1980s. Many species have even gone extinct. There are several potential causes for this decline, but one contributor is disease. For example, infection by parasitic flatworms can…...
Wildfire’s toll on animals went largely unreported, researchers show
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (1057+ words) After the Marshall Fire, researchers at CU Boulder and Western Washington University muse on why animals disappear from disaster stories and suggest a remedy When the Marshall Fire swept through Boulder County on Dec. 30, 2021, it killed two people and destroyed…...
Green Amendments for the Generations
10+ mon, 6+ day ago (114+ words) Join ELS and the GWC for a lunch talk with Maya K. van Rossum, author of Green Amendments and founder of Green Amendments For The Generations, and Wendy Kerner who is spearheading the movement for a... Other ways to search: Green Amendments…...