University of Colorado Boulder

1 day ago | colorado.edu | Yvaine Ye

The first sign something was wrong came from the silent beehives. When Samuel Ramsey visited his family in Maryland this March, he and his father, an avid beekeeper, approached the 10 bee boxes in his grandmother's yard, they were expecting to hear the familiar hum of insects awakening from their winter rest. They pictured the smell of warm, sweet beeswax. Instead, the Ramseys found thousands of lifeless bees piling up at the bottom of the hives.

4 days ago | colorado.edu | Yvaine Ye

Brazil's quilombola people, the descendants of Africans who escaped slavery, have lived in the nation's vast Amazon and Atlantic rainforests for centuries. Today, the quilombolas number about 1.3 million people in the country and have cultivated deep ties to their ancestral territories, where they raise their families and steward the land.

3 weeks ago | colorado.edu | Yvaine Ye

Warming in the Arctic is intensifying methane emissions, contributing to a vicious feedback loop that could accelerate climate change even more, according to a new study published May 7 in Nature. "Methane is a very potent greenhouse gas that we need to address urgently," said co-author Xin (Lindsay) Lan, a climate scientist at CU Boulder's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES).

1 month ago | colorado.edu | Rachel Sauer

Newly planted apple orchard on CU Boulder campus is a nexus of university and community partnerships and will be a living classroom for students and educators For now, they are twiggy little things, all spindly adolescent limbs that nevertheless hint at future harvests. Saturday morning, one even wore a scattering of creamy white blossoms-flowers that, in years to come, once roots have gained hold and branches have stretched up and out, will grow into apples.

1 month ago | colorado.edu

Campus Dining & Hospitality makes it easy for students, faculty, staff and visitors to find nutritious options with convenient locations across campus. Here’s