Environmental Studies
The Thompson awards from the Center of the American West urge students to write about the West and show them the year that was for a $500 prize.
Joanna Lambert’s research in evolutionary biology carries lessons for coexisting with coyotes, COVID-19 and each other.
Researchers have found that a whopping one-third of the fertilizer applied to grow corn in the U.S. each year simply compensates for the ongoing loss of soil fertility, costing farmers a half-billion dollars.
Stronger Antarctic leadership is urgently needed to safeguard the Southern Ocean—and beyond.Two-thirds of the world’s oceans fall outside national jurisdictions – they belong to no one and everyone.These international waters, known as the high
Ƶ researcher finds that connecting with people in nature eases loneliness, anxiety.
Sharon Collinge, professor of environmental studies at Ƶ, also directs the Earth Leadership Program.
Study led by Ƶ researcher is first to tally ‘forest proximate’ humans on earth; numbers, refined terminology may improve focus of conservation and development.
Ƶ alum, now employed by NREL, discusses the importance of his interdisciplinary background for his career.
In this episode of Ƶ Where You Are, Beth Osnes and Max Boykoff discuss the power of humor to start a productive conversation about climate change.
New grant supports interdisciplinary research on "the critical zone” and the future of Western waterThree Ƶ faculty are principal investigators on a new five-year, $6.9 million National Science Foundation grant to study the “critical zone”—from Earth’s bedrock to tree canopy top—in the American West.