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man with mobility issues being evacuated

Evacuating in disasters like Hurricane Milton isn鈥檛 simple

Oct. 11, 2024

Evacuating is expensive, and for some people the risks of leaving can seem greater than staying, despite the storm. Read from CU expert Carson MacPherson-Krutsky on The Conversation.

firefighters working near wildfire

Why wildfires started by humans can be more destructive, harder to contain

Oct. 8, 2024

The U.S. has seen huge wildfires in recent years, and 2024 is no exception. The vast majority of those that affect communities are started by human activity. Read from CU expert Virginia Iglesias on The Conversation.

Adam Brody and Kristen Bell attend a fan screening for Netflix鈥檚 鈥楴obody Wants This鈥� in New York City

鈥楴obody Wants This鈥� rom-com gets old tropes with a new twist鈥攖he cute rabbi

Oct. 3, 2024

Nice Jewish men wanting to date non-Jewish women has been a trope of U.S. stage and screen for 100 years. Read from CU expert Samira Mehta on The Conversation.

A family at Disney World in the 1990s

Inside the collapse of Disney鈥檚 America, the US history-themed park that almost was

Sept. 24, 2024

Thirty years ago, Disney had grand plans to build a history-themed park in Virginia. But efforts to 鈥淒isneyfy鈥� American history met staunch opposition, even in the halcyon 1990s. Read from CU expert Jared Bahir Browsh on The Conversation.

a wall of photos of missing people in Nepal

Nepal鈥檚 revamped truth commissions must go beyond 鈥榬itualism鈥� to deliver justice to victims

Sept. 20, 2024

A newly amended law may push the country beyond what has been a drawn-out and sluggish process to account for the country鈥檚 civil war. Read from CU expert Tracy Fehr on The Conversation.

a tribute to some of the casualties of the 30-month conflict in Ukraine

Growing number of Ukrainians would reluctantly give up territory to save lives, survey suggests

Sept. 19, 2024

Just half of survey respondents wanted to continue fighting to regain all Ukrainian territory including Crimea. Read from CU geography expert John O鈥橪oughlin and colleagues on The Conversation.

field of sunflowers

Sunflowers make small moves to maximize sun exposure

Sept. 16, 2024

Plants don鈥檛 just grow straight up鈥攖hey 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.

A white-shouldered bumblebee visits the flowers of a goldenbanner.

Examining plant-pollinator interactions in a Rocky Mountain subalpine

Sept. 11, 2024

CU expert Julian Resasco visited the same Rocky Mountain subalpine meadow weekly for a decade of summers鈥攈ere's what he learned. Read on The Conversation.

Wild horses

Domesticating horses had a huge impact on society鈥攏ew science rewrites where, when it happened

Sept. 3, 2024

New analyses of bones, teeth, genetics and artifacts suggest it鈥檚 time to revise a long-standing hypothesis for how humans domesticated horses. Read from CU expert William Taylor on The Conversation.

a stream

Urban wildfires disrupt streams and their tiny inhabitants鈥攁 warning of bigger problems

Aug. 26, 2024

After wildfires in California and Colorado cities, levels of harmful metals in the water jumped. Nature sent up a red flag. Read from CU expert Lauren Magliozzi on The Conversation.

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