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CU �Ǹ�Թ� Natural Hazards Center calls for 1,000 letters to inform Biden transition team on how to respond to hazards, disasters.

Rural America the focus of two new projects funded by the National Institutes of Health and U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Climate has played a small but important role in fueling civil wars and other conflicts, CU �Ǹ�Թ� and other researchers find.

On the 50th anniversary of Garrett Hardin’s influential essay, the director of the CU Population Center contends he missed the mark.

A team of wildfire practitioners and researchers—including some from the �Ǹ�Թ�—is working across Colorado to better understand the human role in local wildfire mitigation.

A first look at the intersection of climate change and the relatively good health of new migrants—or “healthy migrant effect”— suggests that the changing climate might propel less-healthy people to migrate from Mexico to the United States.

A new study by CU �Ǹ�Թ� mortality researchers found that drug-related deaths among middle-aged white men have soared 25-fold since 1980. But contrary to recent reports, suicide and alcohol-related mortality has not increased substantially. The paper challenges the idea that economically-influenced "despair deaths" are killing middle-age white men, pointing to prescription painkillers and obesity instead.

Researchers at the �Ǹ�Թ� have identified a genetic component that could help explain why women are more likely to perceive themselves as overweight than similarly proportioned men.

David Pyrooz, assistant professor of sociology at CU �Ǹ�Թ�, has won the 2016 Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology.

Do you feel overweight, about right, or too skinny?

Your answer to that question may be tied to genes you inherited from your parents, especially if you are a female, according to a new study led by the �Ǹ�Թ�.