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In June 2022, the Biden administration announced sweeping changes that would increase pay and benefits for federal wildland firefighters. Officials hoped the incentives would help retain firefighters, but researchers say the changes could lead to new problems in recruiting and retaining wildland fire dispatchers.
Colorado’s legendary snowpack has long been of critical importance to cities and states on both sides of the Continental Divide and due south all the way to Mexico. It’s an essential resource for the winter sports industry, of course, but also for farmers on the plains, city dwellers on the Front Range and wildlife across the state. Thanks to persistent drought and a changing climate, the state’s snowpack is declining, and Colorado finds itself in the same predicament facing cities and countries across the globe, which, by dint of necessity, are changing how they collect, use and conserv...
John W. Jenson, director of the Water and Environmental Research Institute at the University of Guam, was honored with the Ancient Order of the CHamori during a ceremony at Adelup
An experiential learning trip through parks and waterways in Utah this summer gave Trinity students a memorable new perspective on environmental science.
It may not be the most rigorously scientific method, but it works for Barbara Leo.