Campus News

Brooke Marten is engineering a better environment, focused on what happens to trash after it is carted off to the landfill—and ways to turn it into a valuable product.

Large portions of the West, including parts of Colorado, are reeling from extreme temperatures this week. CU expert Colleen Reid, who studies the health impacts from natural disasters, explains the unique hazards of prolonged heat waves and what people and communities can do to handle them.

At its June meeting, the Campus Sustainability Executive Council discussed capital prioritization and Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System reporting.

CIRES researchers have authored a new study that measures the time between storms to better understand soil moisture and how this relates to floods.

CU Boulder has earned a major grant to boost drought monitoring and prediction on the Colorado River.

Dave Newport of the CU Environmental Center was awarded the 2024 Environmental Legacy Award by the Green Sports Alliance for his work with CU Athletics on the department’s sustainability initiatives.

During its June meeting, the CU Board of Regents approved two new sustainability initiatives: the construction of a solar array on East Campus and an 18-building efficiency project.

Researchers at the ATLAS Institute at CU Boulder hope their DIY machine will help designers around the world experiment with making their own, sustainable fashion and other textiles from a range of natural ingredients—maybe even the chitin in crab shells or agar-agar from algae.

Professor Edith Zagona provided technical and advisory services during a U.S. Agency for International Development-sponsored visit to Armenia, where rural communities are running out of water due to uncontrolled use by fish farms and pollution caused by untreated mining tailings.

Areas with more paved roads and driveways also had lower numbers of pollinators, which are vital for the local ecosystem, a new CU Boulder study found.