Researchers: Building better dams starts with ecological insights
Water is a valuable commodity in Colorado, and dam-building is almost always a controversial topic due to conflicting needs for water by humans and by the natural environment.
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Groundbreaking study finds changing environment can lead to rapid evolution
Does an individual’s response to environmental conditions within its lifetime predict evolutionary changes in future generations?
International climate change experts converge on CSU Monday
Colorado State University researchers will welcome fellow renowned climate-change experts from the University of Western Sydney and other institutions to campus Monday for a symposium on the “Ecological Consequences of Climate Change.”
Rats! Study finds in East Africa, more farmland means more plague-infested rodents
Efforts to boost food production in Tanzania are causing a spike in the number of plague-ridden rodents.
CSU study finds "islands" of evolution within an island
Study challenges long-held notion that mountain ranges, canyons and other physical are needed to spur biodiversity.
Blogging from the ends of the earth
University Distinguished Professor Diana Wall and her research team are currently in Antarctica for another season studying the soil and the organisms that live in it in the McMurdo Valley.