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ECO BRIEFS | Week of February 06

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The National Park Experience will premier its film, Love in the Tetons, on Feb. 8 at eTown Hall in Boulder. The goal of the film series, National Park Experience, is to revive the adoration for national parks through true and diverse stories of people’s ...

More harm than good with climate geo-engineering

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Geo-engineering — the untested technofix that would permit the continued use of fossil fuels — could create more problems than it would solve. By masking...

A life less plastic

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Part of the problem with plastic — as much as we enjoy clear plastic wraps, resealable food containers, and infant incubators — is that plastics, once created, don’t ever go away. Scientifically speaking, plastic polymers do not break down to their basic minerals, ...

Saving bison; Free trade palm oil

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Wild ‘N Free event focuses on saving bison Hundreds of bison are removed every year from the Yellowstone area in what land managers say is...

Hang in there snowfly

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HANG IN THERE, SNOWFLY...

ECO BRIEFS | Week of Jan. 30

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REMOVING LIONFISH ALLOWS FOR SUCCESSFUL RECOVERY OF NATIVE FISH POPULATIONS...

Balancing recreation and conservation

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Roger W. Toll stands tall in dirt-crusted work boots. He places his large, weathered hand on the brim of his forehead to shade from the sun, setting his gaze on the expanse before him: a broad formation of earth that gradually rises to sheer stone, guarding the ...

Eco-briefs | New University of Colorado study shows biodiversity protects against...

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Biodiversity has become an increasingly important topic among scientists studying infectious disease, but can be tricky to test because of the complexity of ecosystems...

Rewear, reuse, recycle

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On average, the U.S. generates about 25 billion pounds of textiles each year — 85 percent of which end up in landfills, according to the nonprofit Council for Textile Recycling...

ReSource going mainstream

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What does 3.8 million pounds look like? It could look like three Antonov An-225 airplanes, the heaviest planes ever made; or like a massive...

Celebrating Earth

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Taking life into your own hands

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Last November, outside of Craig, Colo., Brazilian-born Leo Zacharias removed a loaded .45-caliber pistol from his belt and handed it to his girlfriend, Colorado native Stephanie Loveless. If the strange man she was being left behind with tried anything, Zacharias ...