A rash of earthquakes in Colorado and New Mexico between 2008 and 2010 was likely due to fluids pumped deep underground during oil and gas wastewater disposal, says a new study.
¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder and collaborating partners have been awarded $2.9 million from the National Science Foundation to create a digital archive of more than 1.7 million plant specimens native to the southern Rocky Mountain region.
Jason Boardman has made headlines studying the interactions between people's genes and their environment. Now he's helping launch a first-of-its-kind program to train young scholars in the cross-disciplinary field.
An NSIDC-led project will explore how indigenous peoples living in the arid U.S. Southwest and icy Arctic are adapting to rapid social and environmental changes that affect food security.
A team of ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder scientists is working to unlock a longstanding ecological mystery: barren patches of ground in Africa's grasslands known as fairy circles.
An abnormal season of intense glacial melt in 2002 triggered multiple distinct changes in the physical and biological characteristics of Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys over the ensuing decade.
