A new regional forest fire research center at Colorado State University will study how to restore forests after wildfires.

“This is the time when the Atlantic is really starting to warm,” said Phil Klotzbach, a researcher with professor William Gray’s hurricane prediction team at Colorado State University.

For 2005, researcher William Gray of Colorado State University has predicted 15 storms, of which eight are likely to reach hurricane strength.

The price rise accelerated yesterday after oil companies began evacuating staff at facilities in the Gulf of Mexico as Tropical Storm Arlene moved toward the region. This year’s Atlantic Ocean hurricane season will produce 36 percent more hurricanes than average, …

For 2005, prominent researcher Professor William Gray of Colorado State University has predicted 15 storms, of which eight are likely to reach hurricane strength.

A NASA and Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) satellite, which will improve worldwide climate predictions and provide a better understanding of how clouds and aerosols affect our atmosphere, has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The CloudSat radar instrument …

Jim Sites, associate dean for research at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, a member of the collaboration, said the observatory is designed to capture the extremely rare, highest-energy cosmic rays that pack so much power scientists cannot figure out …

An international science group Tuesday chose Colorado as the site of a $50 million observatory to measure the cosmic rays that continually bombard the Earth.

The science involves “connecting the smallest particles (of the rays) with the entire universe – that’s a size spectrum that is pretty phenomenal,” said Hank Gardner, vice president for research at Colorado State University.

Colorado State University was awarded a four-year, $40 million federal grant Wednesday to develop treatments and vaccines for bioterrorism agents and infectious diseases, such as plague and hantavirus.