What do the extreme fire seasons of 1910 and 2020—and 2,500 years of forest history—tell us about the future of wildfires in the West? Read from CU expert on The Conversation.
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A newly amended law may push the country beyond what has been a drawn-out and sluggish process to account for the country’s civil war. Read from CU expert Tracy Fehr on The Conversation. Read more
Just half of survey respondents wanted to continue fighting to regain all Ukrainian territory including Crimea. Read from CU geography expert John O’Loughlin and colleagues on The Conversation. Read more
Plants don’t just grow straight up—they can move in loopy and zigzagging ways to get more sunshine. Physicists were able to model a sunflower to predict how they grow. Read from CU expert Chantal Nguyen on The Conversation. Read more