Founded in 1870 as the Colorado Agricultural College, Colorado State University is now among the nation’s leading research universities. Located in Fort Collins, CSU currently enrolls about 22,650 undergraduate students, 4,100 graduate students and 550 Professional Veterinary Medicine students, and has more than 1,800 faculty members working in eight colleges. More information is available at www.colostate.edu.
Storing more carbon in soil helps slow climate change and makes croplands more productive. But there are two kinds of soil carbon that are both important, but function very differently.
Places where lots of animals come into contact can help pathogens move from species to species.
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In the real world, new diseases emerge from complex environments. To learn more about how, scientists set up whole artificial ecosystems in the lab, instead of focusing on just one factor at a time.
The USS Cairo pulls up to the banks of the Mississippi River in 1862.
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Mayflies and stone flies are extremely vulnerable to water pollution, which has implications for the larger food chain.
The Immaculate Conception Catholic Church lies in ruins after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, Jan. 7, 2020.
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Puerto Rico’s January earthquakes came after many foreshocks and have been followed by numerous aftershocks. Scientists are studying these sequences to improve earthquake forecasting.
Your calendar dates back to Babylonian times.
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Border wall construction through Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona is encroaching on a site where people from many cultures have interacted for thousands of years.
A portrait from 1868 of abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
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Among Tubman’s most daring feats was helping slaves escape. She believed she went into trances and had visions. These, to her, were God’s way of guiding her, which made her quite fearless.
One slice is never enough.
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Nobel Prizes in science are usually given for revolutionary ideas that change our perception of the universe. But this year’s chemistry prize was awarded to inventors of a revolutionary device.
The Bingham Canyon open-pit copper mine in Utah has operated since 1903.
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Two energy scholars who have studied the extent of methane leaks in the oil and gas industry explain what rescinding methane emissions regulations will mean to the climate and industry.
Kebakaran hutan terjadi di area dekat Jaci Parana, negara bagian Rondonia, Brasil, tanggal 24 Agustus 2019.
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Apa yang menjadi ancaman ketika hutan Amazon, yang merupakan paru-paru Bumi, terbakar? Ilmuwan atmosfer menjelaskan kebakaran yang memang berbahaya tidak berarti oksigen habis di Bumi.
Fire consumes an area near Jaci Parana, state of Rondonia, Brazil, Aug. 24, 2019.
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If the Amazon rainforest functions as our planet’s lungs, what do raging wildfires threaten? An atmospheric scientist explains why the fires, though devastating, won’t suffocate life on Earth.