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¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder graduate student Owen Martin grew up in Colorado but had never seen a firefly in the state until three years ago. Now, he and his advisor Orit Peleg are trying to raise awareness of the Rocky Mountain region's glowing and "wonderous" insects.

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. ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ 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.

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

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

Researchers at the ATLAS Institute at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ 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 ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder study found.

Announced by Gov. Jared Polis, two grants totaling nearly $700,000 through the statewide Geothermal Energy Grant Program will help determine whether geothermal energy is feasible for the campus.

¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder chemist Oana Luca gives her take on how carbon-dependent sectors, such as chemical manufacture and long-haul transportation, can reduce emissions.