Boulderganic

Politicians, not markets, slow new energy dawn

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Often blamed for society’s problems, politicians have now been brought to book for the slow take-up of renewable forms of energy. These are now so...

Aligning plant with plant

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So those can be pretty bad,” Ben Searchinger says, talking about the Russian-doll-like packaging system that encloses a box of edible gummies at Drift...

Use it or lose it

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Whether you consider weed management titillating or not, the control of noxious weeds has been a point of tension in Boulder County for decades,...

Slow-moving disaster reaches Longmont

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Longmont is joining Boulder in a hotter future, with more pollution and potentially worse floods at the hand of a tiny, jewel-colored insect. The emerald...

Keeping up with climate change

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Earlier this year, the City of Boulder came out with its 2017 Greenhouse Gas Inventory, and the results look pretty good: a 16-percent reduction...

Pesticide problems persist

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Pesticides are made to kill something somewhere — it says it in the name and there is always a trade-off, says Pierre Mineau, Ph.D., co-author of a new study that found that pesticides are the leading cause of grassland bird deaths...

Sustainable hope

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With each passing day, news about the state of the environment gets more alarming. As problems get worse, it’s easy to get disheartened, which...

If a tree falls in Boulder County…

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This story starts in Asia. The main character is a tiny metallic green insect, known to English ears as the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB)....

Locals wary despite company promise not to frack Rocky Flats

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Guarded relief was the mood at the College Hill Library in Westminster on Thursday, Nov. 15, where about 70 local residents gathered to discuss...

Passing of a giant

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South 88th Street in Louisville is no different than the other roads veining through Boulder County. There’s a fenced-in prairie stretching to the east. To...

Butterfly Pavilion spreads its wings

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Flocks of painted lady butterflies flew to Colorado last month, in what Butterfly Pavilion CEO, Patrick Tennyson, calls an “explosion” of the pollinator species....

Former NIST director and notable physicist Katharine Gebbie dies at 84

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Dr. Katharine Blodgett Gebbie, former director of the Physics Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and mentor to four Nobel...