Jeffrey Jacquet, an environmental sociologist, explains what oil and gas development means for rural homeowners in a March lecture in 2015 for the Center for the American West's series FrackingSENSE at the University of Colorado Boulder. We spoke about the future of development and the social costs of drilling in Colorado.  

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Natalia Bayona for A Swiftly Tilting Planet, University of Colorado Boulder Center for Environmental Journalism's podcast

Sociologist Jeffrey Jacquet on the lesser-known side of fracking

The 7.8-magnitude earthquake that devastated Nepal in April 2015 didn’t only bring personal and economic loss to rural villagers, but gave scientists a new way to study climate change.

Mountain geographer Alton Byers at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research and a team of scientists from across the U.S. traveled to Nepal over the summer to understand how fragile, melting glaciers in the Himalayas were affected by the disaster.

They found that natives in the valleys below experienced flooding after the earthquake when massive landslides deconstructed lakes made of the meltwater receding glaciers left behind. Byers sat down with me to talk about the dangers — and hopes — for the future in these alpine communities.

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Natalia Bayona for A Swiftly Tilting Planet, University of Colorado Boulder Center for Environmental Journalism's podcast

Geographer Alton Byers on Nepal's dangerous, melting glaciers

Award-winning poet and professor Janice Gould (Koyangk'auwi Maidu) at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs reads a selection about her youth and speaks to the importance of self-expression.     

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It was raining

Educators from across the U.S. joined University of Colorado Boulder's University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) for an interactive workshop in 2016 on how to use games to teach complex topics in climate research and natural disaster response.

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Natalia Bayona for How on Earth, KGNU Radio's science show

Playing with Data

I'm a multimedia science communicator who loves telling stories about the environment and social justice.