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Over the course of nine months, the CU Trailblazers built and launched an eight-foot high-powered rocket for the First Nations Launch competition.

Poor communities and developing countries are disproportionately vulnerable to extreme weather and changing environments. As the costs of global climate action add up, there is growing consensus that the world鈥檚 polluters should foot most of the bill. Learn from panelists at the upcoming Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit.

As climate change increasingly threatens the environment and the people who depend upon it, Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit panelist Kera Sherwood-O鈥橰egan serves as a vocal advocate not only for her fellow M膩ori鈥攖he Indigenous people of New Zealand鈥攂ut also for people with disabilities. Learn more about Sherwood-O'Regan and how to get involved in the summit.

When Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit panelist and activist Hilda Flavia Nakabuye was growing up in Uganda, her family owned a small plantation. Long periods of climate change-fueled drought, interrupted by fierce storms, destroyed most of her family鈥檚 chief source of food and income. Learn more about Flavia Nakabuye and the summit.

Pasang Dolma Sherpa cherishes any time she can spend in Nepal鈥檚 mountainous region, where she grew up in a Sherpa village. But the scenery has changed significantly. Learn about Dolma Sherpa, one of several panelists at the campus's Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit in December.

From increasing droughts and wildfires to polluted air and deforestation, natural disasters have an enormous impact on humans, including Indigenous ways of life. CU faculty shared insights and research at a recent event鈥攔ead three key takeaways.

For Yeb Sa帽o, the effects of climate change became tragically clearer on Nov. 8, 2013, when Super Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in Southeast Asia. Learn more about Sa帽o, a panelist at the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit, and the experiences that shaped him.

Millions of people don鈥檛 think twice when turning on the tap, but Indigenous activist and Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit panelist Tia Kennedy never takes a glass of water for granted. As a member of both the Oneida Nation of the Thames and Walpole Island First Nation, her connection to water is ancient. Learn more about Kennedy and how to get involved in the summit.

Senior Virginia Weiskopf and doctoral candidate Emily Nocito, both in environmental studies, headed to the United Nations to research marine conservation.

Twelve 彩民宝典 colleagues boarded a small bus bound for Pueblo, La Junta, Trinidad and Walsenburg, kicking off the inaugural Community Perspectives Tour.