Boulderganic

Grasshopper invasion?

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Grasshoppers. Coming soon to a field, garden or yard near you. Eating everything of plant material, including cotton T-shirts on clothes lines. Or so rumor has it. It came up at my book club meeting, where a couple of members said they heard about it recently on ...

‘Tree hugging and all of that’

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In Civic Area Park, just in front of the Boulder Museum for Contemporary Art (BMoCA), grows a large American linden tree with fissured bark...

Oil and gas permitting in national forests may get easier

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On Tuesday Sept. 1, the Trump administration published a proposed rule-making that could open up the 193 million acres of National Forest Service lands...

One person’s trash, another’s craft supplies

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If you take the gear off your bike and hold it up to the light, you may be taken aback by the beauty of...

Local nonprofit provides clean water in Malawi

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Sitting in class, studying for a bachelors’ degree in business at the University of Kansas, Heidi Rickels felt her heart beating faster every time...

Nature bats last

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The coronavirus pandemic has made humans think a lot about animals. Take, for instance, the deluge of foster home applications that hit animal shelters...

Fried fish, smothered fish

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First thing every morning, Ryan Votta walks across the Durango Fish Hatchery campus and over to the isolation unit. Before stepping inside, he disinfects...

Clear the air

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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...

Predicting seasons of the sun

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Although you might take it for granted that the sun is extremely stable over time, the star at the center of our solar system...

Just another plant

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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...

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...

More countries opt to phase out oil production

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A growing number of governments are choosing to phase out oil production, reasoning that cutting the availability of fossil fuels can help cut the...