CSU leads comprehensive review of wildfire research in collaboration with Stanford University

The huge, long-lasting wildfires that have become increasingly common in recent years can cause changes in soil chemistry that affect water contamination, air quality and plant growth. These changes, however, are poorly monitored and rarely factor into post-fire recovery efforts or risk assessments, according to a CSU-led article published May 14 in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment.

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Earthworms play important role in global food production, according to new CSU research

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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As water issues in the West endure, Irrigation Innovation Consortium supports industry, university collaborations

For almost five years, the IIC has supported industry-university collaboration to improve irrigation technologies, encourage their adoption and boost effective water management in agricultural and landscape contexts.

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CSU soil scientists tapping rangelands as vast sources for carbon storage

Over the last several months, a CSU research team has teamed with Woodwell Climate Research Center on a Colorado-based project aimed at helping managers of rangelands, which cover large areas of both public and private lands, understand and monitor the delicate carbon balances across their grazed landscapes.

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Digging for climate solutions: New executive director heads up CSU’s Soil Carbon Solutions Center

With a background in ecology, climate change research and soil carbon science, CSU Soil Carbon Solutions Center’s Executive Director Jane Zelikova has approached the problem of climate change in a multitude of ways — from research and policy to filmmaking.

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Water scarcity will require agriculture to tap ‘unconventional’ sources like seawater, wastewater

CSU is a founding partner in a $110 million U.S. Department of Energy research network, the National Alliance for Water Innovation, focused on treatment and reuse technologies for wastewater, seawater and other untapped sources.

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