The EPA is proposing a change to the definition of “discharge of a pollutant” that would exempt moving boats and ships from pollution regulations.

An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.

npj Natural Hazards - Glacial lakes and GLOFs in a warming Himalaya-Karakoram region: current understanding, challenges, and the way forward

CU Boulder researchers ask who decides to stay behind when climate disaster strikes.

Sea-level rise (SLR) poses a growing threat to the livability of coastal communities, leading to many projections of out-migration in the coming decades. How...

Stand up for Science

The BOG's performance bonus to System President Peter Hans comes as universities across the System have been cutting costs amid federal and state funding uncertainty.

Concentration of precipitation in large events decreases land water availability, and this effect will further increase with a future warming climate.

A documentary about a crown jewel of American science, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the peril it faces.

Fellowship seeks early- to mid-career researchers based in America who are committed to science and public expertise

My last post described how presidential disaster declarations are an important indicator of how the 2nd Trump Administration intends to govern disasters.

How to effectively communicate climate change to the public has long been studied and debated. Through a registered report megastudy, researchers tested the ten most-cited climate change messaging str...

In this paper, I consider the role of animals in gentrification processes, developing a conceptualisation of ‘horsification’: the proliferation of hor…

Flooding in Marin County this weekend foreshadows a far wetter future due to human-caused climate change.

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Abstract. In this study, we examine the relationship between frequent flood experience (FFE), norm perception, and responsibility attribution. Given that floods are assumed to occur more often in the ...

Write today and urge your members of Congress to oppose the Trump administration's plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR.) Your message to Congress will help protect NC...

As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...

We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.

A tripolar pattern of Pacific sea surface temperature variability strongly modulates tropical cyclone latitudes and largely determined their poleward migration during the period 1980–2024, according t...