Global copper demand outstrips supply, threatening electrification and industrial growth

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, co-authored this column that underscores copper's importance and scarcity as the world moves to more fully electrify.
March 19, 2026

Winter storms blanket the East, while the U.S. West is wondering: Where’s the snow?

Adrienne Marshall, assistant professor of geology and geological engineering, explains what forecasters are watching and how rising temperatures are affecting the future of snow in the western United States.
December 1, 2025

Scientists in Antarctica discover a vast, salty groundwater system under the ice sheet – with implications for sea level rise

Matt Siegfried, assistant professor of geophysics, and Mines Geophysics alum Chloe Gustafson spent 61 days living in tents on an Antarctic ice stream to collect data about the land under half a mile of ice beneath their feet. Here, they explain what ....
May 5, 2022

6 priorities could deliver energy breakthroughs at the Glasgow climate summit – there’s progress on some already

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute at Colorado School of Mines, wrote this opinion piece with Dolf Gielen, director for technology and innovation at the International Renewable Energy Agency.
November 2, 2021

New US climate pledge: Cut emissions 50% this decade, but can Biden make it happen?

Author: Morgan Bazilian, Professor of Public Policy and Director, Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines
April 22, 2021

Hussein Amery: Climate, not conflict, drove many Syrian refugees to Lebanon

I have been studying various aspects of water and food security in the Middle East for a long time. Now I have begun a new project studying the social and economic conditions needed to repatriate rural refugees to the farming communities in Syria.
December 3, 2019