Guest post by Lucy Chalgren, 2026-2027 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Journalism & Media Communication The first time I saw a green sea turtle, I was in high school, snorkeling with my family off the
Guest post by Joseph Toman, 2026-2027 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology When we think of the effects of fire, most call to mind changes in
Guest post by Chika Winnifred Agha, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and PhD Candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and longer dry seasons are no longer distant climate projections; they are everyday realities for farmers
Guest post by Christian Sewor, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and PhD Student in the Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences Household Air Pollution and the Path That Shaped My Work: A Return to Why As my doctoral journey slowly
Guest post by Haihui Zhu, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Atmospheric Science “A powerful storm kicked up a towering wall of dust that rolled through metro Phoenix on Monday (Aug. 25, 2025), darkening the
Guest post by Nicholas Parker, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and PhD Candidate in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, and Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL) Colorado’s mountain tops are a desolate place. If you were
Guest post by Maggie Church, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and PhD Student in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Wetlands have always been easy to overlook. For much of American history, wetlands have
Guest post by Thomas Gifford, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Economics and Center for New Energy Economy Last week, I ventured from Fort Collins down to the Land of Enchantment to learn about the latest
Guest post by Anson Call, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship and Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. It’s barely noon, but the sun glows like a dim traffic light. The air tastes
Guest post by Taylor Bacon, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Soil & Crop Sciences It feels like a particularly hard time to care about the planet, and as a reader of this blog, I’m