A new review paper led by researchers at Colorado State University examines six strategies for addressing the challenge of water scarcity.
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A Colorado State University-led regional food business center funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture has selected 116 small and medium-size farm and food business projects in Colorado, the Mountain West and the Pacific Northwest to fund with nearly $2 million in grants.
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Colorado State University Professor Eugene Kelly, a leading soil scientist, has been named a 2024 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.
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A Colorado State University-led team of scientists have detailed both broad and specific information about the presence and function of microorganisms in rivers covering 90% of the watersheds in the continental U.S.
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Colorado State University’s Lauren Gifford, associate director of CSU’s Soil Carbon Solutions Center, is the lead author on a new paper published this month in the journal Geography Compass examining the emerging field of climate finance justice.
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Colorado State University postdoctoral research fellow Analissa Sarno recently received a $225,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Institute of Food and Agriculture to study how agrivoltaics could be implemented specifically in Western Colorado.
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The USDA has awarded Colorado State University researchers $850,000 to study how plants control their microbiome while fighting disease
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A Colorado State University-led team of researchers have developed a better understanding of the interplay among plants, microbes and soil nutrients in the Arctic.
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Moving water around the Western U.S. requires energy — a new CSU study examines the greenhouse gas emissions tied to that energy use that can be credited to agriculture.
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Temple Grandin, CSU’s renowned animal scientist and autism advocate, has received the 2024 Denver Business Journal’s Outstanding Women in Business Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Colorado State University Professor Kelly Wrighton has collaborated with a prestigious group of more than a dozen scientists on a national effort to examine the connections between soils and human health
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Lawrence-Dill previously served as the associate dean for research and discovery and the associate director for the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Iowa State University.
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New CSU research shows soil microorganisms could produce previously uncounted greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost
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Colorado State University played a critical role in the recent launch of a new global project known as the Periodic Table of Food Initiative, or PTFI, a collaborative effort aimed at better understanding the biomolecular makeup and nutrition information for hundreds of types of food.
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The federal government has allocated $1.45 million for Colorado State University to expand the state’s soil moisture monitoring network.
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CSU researcher in receives $10 million Gates Foundation grant for personalized medicine for plants project operating in Department of Soil and Crop Sciences
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For the first time, researchers have identified what appear to be a network of approximately 20 microbes that universally drive the decomposition of animal flesh, a finding that has implications for forensic science.
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Irrigation pumping on U.S. farmland accounts for approximately 16% of all greenhouse gas emissions from energy use in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, according to new work led by Colorado State University researchers published in the journal Nature Communications.
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Colorado State University scientists have discovered a new disease of wheat in eastern Colorado.
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Colorado State University scientists have released a National Climate Change Roadmap to help advise future investment in climate science research.
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CSU researcher Ada Szczepaneic is researching how to protect quinoa in the San Luis Valley from a new pest.
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Earthworms are important drivers of global food production, contributing to approximately 6.5% of grain yield and 2.3% of legumes produced worldwide each year, according to new work published by Colorado State University scientists in the journal Nature Communications.
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