Boulderganic
Untapped potential: Boulder’s Food Waste Audit
Food retailers in Boulder, like most eateries in most cities around America, are in desperate need of education on the subject of food donation.
A...
Butterfly Pavilion spreads its wings
Flocks of painted lady butterflies flew to Colorado last month, in what Butterfly Pavilion CEO, Patrick Tennyson, calls an “explosion” of the pollinator species....
Local nonprofit provides clean water in Malawi
Sitting in class, studying for a bachelors’ degree in business at the University of Kansas, Heidi Rickels felt her heart beating faster every time...
One person’s trash, another’s craft supplies
If you take the gear off your bike and hold it up to the light, you may be taken aback by the beauty of...
Politicians, not markets, slow new energy dawn
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...
Clear the air
Colorado is making progress to clean emissions spewing from its roads and highways.
The Colorado Clean Car standard, adopted on Oct. 20 by the Air...
We looked for some of the hottest places in California. We...
The first time ProPublica traveled to Thermal, California, in June 2020, the temperature happened to be 114 degrees, and we felt stupefied, literally unable...
U.N. calls lethal Brazil dam burst a crime
The latest Brazil dam burst happened on Jan. 26 in the town of Brumadinho in the central state of Minas Gerais, less than a...
Just another plant
In five test fields across the state, hemp plants are pushing toward the sun in the nation’s first hemp seed certification program. The global...
Nature bats last
The coronavirus pandemic has made humans think a lot about animals. Take, for instance, the deluge of foster home applications that hit animal shelters...
Hotter and hotter; Earth’s quasi satellite
Summers to get hotter and hotter
New research from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NOAA) shows that at the planet’s current heating rate, in...
The best possible compromise
After years of requests from the wind energy industry, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) will now be able to issue wind energy...