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USU Part of New Institute to Understand Climate Change, Other Disasters
The project aims to harness geospatial data to understand the connections and complex interactions that result from…
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New Research Suggests California's Wildfires Cycle has Been Superseded by Global Warming
The dominant force driving wildfires in California for hundreds of years may no longer be the key factor in the…
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Rising Temperatures Reshape When and How Much People Get Outdoors on Public Lands
With summer winding down, millions of Americans are shelving their sandals, draining their kayaks and dusting off…
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Climate Change in Utah will Require Ski Resort Adaptations
Utah is proud of its snow. The state of Utah even trademarked the phrase "The Greatest Snow on Earth™" and put it on…
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Ask an Expert - With Proper Care, Drought Won't Permanently Damage Yards
Even with this reduced irrigation schedule, lawns can stay fairly green but will develop brown patches; however, the…
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Utah State Alum Selected as National Weather Service Regional Director
With more than 30 years of experience as a hydrologist in Alaska, Scott Lindsey is ready to take on the climate…
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Ask an Expert - Landscape Now to Help Prevent Wildfire Destruction Later
To date, 100% of Utah is in the moderate drought category, and 90% of the state is experiencing extreme drought.…
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Extension Climate Change Action Forum Brings Federal, State Leaders Together
The virtual forum brought together Extension faculty, staff, federal representatives, administrators and constituents…
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Total Meltdown: USU Geoscientist Says Greenland Ice Sheet Findings Sobering
Tammy Rittenour uses luminescence dating to analyze sediment samples from secret, Cold War-era military project.
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'Best Case' Goals for Climate Warming Could Still Result in Massive Wildfire Risk
Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change agreed to pursue efforts to…
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Mountain Pine Beetles Show Resiliency to Warming Climates
In a recent Ecological Monographs article, David Soderberg, a doctoral candidate from Utah State University's Ecology…
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Slow Motion Disaster: Receding Glaciers Open Space for Invading Algae
Glaciers in western Canada are headed into a slow-motion disaster—these ice fields are disappearing at a rate that's…