“In Southwest Colorado, (there has) certainly been a drying trend in recent years,” said Russ Schumacher, an atmospheric scientist with Colorado State University and the Colorado state climatologist. (Durango Herald)
With a growing set of tools, scientists are digging into questions about the links between modern agriculture, drought, and rising incidents of dust storms and respiratory illness. (Civil Eats)
Not long after the first TEMPEST-D completed a successful three-year mission, an identical tiny satellite sensor developed by researchers at Colorado State University and NASA’s JPL is back in orbit.
Collett will edit one of the oldest peer-reviewed journals covering the fields of air quality and waste management.
“It’s made me wonder if maybe we’ve been a little bit lucky that we haven’t had more of these brush fire incidents closer to urban centers before.” (Colorado Sun)
“2021 is another example of warmer extremes becoming increasingly frequent,” said Becky Bolinger, a climatologist based at Colorado State University. (PBS Newshour)
NPR affiliate KUNC talked with Russ Schumacher, Colorado’s state climatologist and director of the Colorado Climate Center, about how those conditions set the stage for fire.
Russ Schumacher, director of the Colorado Climate Center, said the state had experienced a warming trend over the past two decades. (New York Times)
"So if we do go through another winter with another sub-par snowpack, the water concerns from western Colorado through the Southwest are going to get pretty serious by next year,” said Russ Schumacher, Colorado's State Climatologist. (Colorado Sun)
Twenty-one named storms formed in 2021, with seven of these storms becoming hurricanes and four reaching major hurricane strength.