Environment

  • megafire
    Wildfire is getting worse. A report from the front lines.
  • cover of the book
    In 2010, while editing a report on the effects of climate change in Iowa, ecologist Cornelia Mutel came to grips with the magnitude and urgency of the problem.
  • Dan Whittle
    Dan Whittle and the protection of Cuba's natural splendor.
  • Water bottle
    Sarah Kauss’ S’well water bottles have style.
  • In every issue we feature professional-quality photography by alumni or students on these two pages. To submit your images for consideration, please e-mail christine.sounart@colorado.edu.
    ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder environmental studies doctoral candidate Ethan Welty captured this formation of sand ripples amid sparse grassy vegetation in the Erg Zehar dune field, a two-day trek via camel from the road’s end at M’ Hamid, Morocco.
  • Brian Ladd
    When Brian Ladd graduated from ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder in 1999, he and two friends headed to South America with backpacks and bicycles, pedaling from Peru south through Chile and on to Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego.
  • oldest cu tree
    Since 1879 Old Main's towering cottonwood trees have been witness to the best and worst of times.
  • wind farm
    Wind power? Big deal. Really, really big deal, in fact. Consider that scientists are now pondering construction of leviathan, 20-megawatt wind turbines some 190 meters high — basically two football fields — with swooping 125-meter rotor blades.
  • environmental club
    Forty years ago, before alternative energy was lucrative and being green was the cool thing to do, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ students founded the Environmental Center on Earth Day in 1970.
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