AI’s dirty secret: why diesel still powers the digital age
Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, co-authors this piece examining the use of diesel generators to power data centers.
December 17, 2025
Colorado School of Mines to offer first-ever on-island mechanical engineering degree
The Applied Science and Technology Research Organization of America has formalized partnerships with Mines and the University of Guam to establish a Mines satellite campus on Guam focused on additive manufacturing.
December 17, 2025
Mining waste in the US contains billions of dollars of precious metals
Elizabeth Holley, associate professor of mining engineering, is referenced regarding her August 21, 2025 Science Magazine article that documented the presence of critical minerals in the nation's mine waste.
December 13, 2025
Colorado School of Mines professor and students work on creating a new type of concrete
Lori Tunstall, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, discusses the environmental benefits of a new type of concrete that she's developed.
December 10, 2025
Exclusive: Chilean regulator, workers flagged risk at Teck's Quebrada Blanca dam
Rennie Kaunda, associate professor of mining engineering, said cracks and leaks can be red flags for dam stability, requiring consistent monitoring and identification of the root cause.
December 9, 2025
How the oil industry's climate-change solution is surviving Trump's attack on green energy
Anna Littlefield, carbon-capture program manager at the Payne Institute for Public Policy, said the oil and gas infrastructure is similar to the infrastructure required for carbon capture operations.
December 6, 2025
Google just backed carbon capture tech for data center energy providers. Will other tech giants follow?
Anna Littlefield, low carbon energy program manager with the Payne Institute for Public Policy, and Morgan Bazilian, director of Payne, authored this opinion piece looking at Google's new investment into carbon capture.
December 4, 2025
Student-run snow removal business looking forward to change in weather
Nathan Spalding, a Mines senior, discuss how his snow removal business is finally looking up due to a forecast calling for the Denver metro area's first significant storm of the season.
December 2, 2025
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
Great Lakes ice is thought to block evaporation. A new study says weather plays a bigger role.
Eric Anderson, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, explains that his study found evaporation is more tied to overlying weather conditions or atmospheric conditions above the Great Lakes than it is connected to ice on the lakes' surface.
December 1, 2025
In burned forests, the West’s snowpack is melting earlier
Arielle Koshkin, doctoral candidate in hydrological science and engineering, explains that an increase in sunlight and decrease in the reflectivity of the snow after a wildfire are both leading to an earlier snow disappearance date.
November 30, 2025
Trump's push to revive US coal faces weak market demand after failed lease sales
Ian Lange, professor of economics and business, explains that coal's trajectory depends less on political shifts and more on electricity demand growth, which remains uncertain.