Antarctic Octopus Holds Secrets of Prehistoric Ice Loss in Its Genome

“This is really the first biologic evidence that’s being used for past collapse, and I think that that is the really special and surprising thing about this paper,” says Ryan Venturelli, a paleoglaciologist at the Colorado School of Mines, who was ....
December 21, 2023

A Neglected Aspect of Good Teaching

Mines' Roel Snieder and Cortney Holles co-wrote this opinion piece with the Teaching With Heart project team about why college instructors should consider not just pedagogy but also their mindset in the classroom.
December 20, 2023

How to take ‘forever’ out of forever chemicals

“There are new ones being put on the market each year,” says Timothy Strathmann, a civil and environmental engineer at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden. It can also be difficult to measure some of these molecules, especially at low ....
December 14, 2023

China Would Benefit from Proposed IP Giveaway

Walter G. Copan, PhD, vice president for research and technology transfer at Colorado School of Mines, wrote this op-ed about the proposed intellectual property waiver for Covid-19 therapeutics and diagnostics.
December 14, 2023

What does the groundbreaking COP28 agreement mean for the US?

“It’s not like it’s some kind of global mandate or something that all of a sudden is going to restructure anything,” said Morgan Bazilian, who previously worked as a European Union negotiator during climate talks. “That said, it probably plays well ....
December 13, 2023

COP28: 5 big takeaways on a historic climate agreement

Morgan Bazilian, who attended the conference as part of the Irish delegation, told The Hill he doesn’t think countries will “make large investment or policy or regulatory decisions because of that language” calling for a transition away from fossil ....
December 13, 2023

Why the U.S. has a serious mining worker shortage

Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer Walt Copan, Professor Jessica Smith and the Payne Institute's Juliet Akamboe were interviewed in this piece about the role miners play in the transition to green energy.
December 8, 2023

Deemed Sustainable by Seafood Industry Monitors, Harvested California Squid Has an Unmeasurable Energy Footprint

Chris Elvidge is the director of the Earth Observation Group at the Colorado School of Mines and has spent decades studying nighttime lights. His work got worldwide attention when he and his colleagues published images, based on satellite data ....
December 8, 2023

Mining is necessary for the green transition. Here’s why experts say we need to do it better

Many people aren’t aware of the ecological implications of producing the goods we use in general, noted Corby Anderson, associate director of the Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy at the Colorado School of Mines. “Whenever humans engage in ....
December 1, 2023

Where the World Is (and Isn’t) Making Progress on Climate Change

“There aren’t many clear winners that have emerged just yet,” said Morgan Bazilian, a professor of public policy at the Colorado School of Mines.
November 30, 2023