As climate change drives higher temperatures and water scarcity, disease transmission between livestock and wildlife at shared resources is on the rise. Colorado State University research suggests that resource management and parasite treatment can help mitigate parasite transmission between cattle and wild herbivores.
Sean Gallen, a geomorphologist at CSU, recently shared his ideas explaining how delamination contributes to high elevations in a Live Science article, “How do mountains form?” New findings by geologists concerning tectonic plates and the formation of mountains are highlighted in this article.
“I came to understand a lot more of the world through a combined environmental and economic viewpoint. That intersection also excited me, as we work to solve environmental problems through valuation and human behavior, something I hadn’t known anything about before.”