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eco-briefs

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CORPORATE FUNDING LINKED TO CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH...

Study reveals Coloradans’ take on public lands; Planned dams in South...

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Conservation study reveals Coloradans’ take on public lands A survey released Monday by the Colorado College State of the Rockies Project revealed Colorado voters support...

Weight of the world

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Jeff Kiehl had been a climate scientist at NCAR in Boulder studying topics like the greenhouse effect and stratospheric ozone for nearly two decades...

The future of wind energy in question

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Each year that the wind Production Tax Credit has been allowed to expire, the wind energy industry has seen major declines. This year, wind energy faces that possibility for a fourth time in the credit’s 20-year life span...

Hickenlooper’s new oil and gas regulations: Real substance or fracking greenwash?

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The oil and gas industry and Gov. John Hickenlooper’s “plan A” was easy enough to spot when it came to their shared desire to increase oil and gas development in Colorado. For its part, the industry spent millions of dollars on advertising to convince the public that...

Bike-sharing program launches in Boulder

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A new fleet of bicycles will take to Boulder’s streets on May 20 — shiny, red bikes equipped with baskets and bells — as part of a program designed to make it easier for residents and visitors to make quick trips by bicycle around town...

Climate scientists say effects of global warming are more urgent than...

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Climate change threatens to become “severe, pervasive and irreversible,” according to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC...

Climbing for change

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In 2003, while hiking miles through the Himalayas of Southern China, Travis Ramos realized he needed to make a change. He traveled door-to-door through a community of potato farmers known as the Nuosu people, who carve out their homes high on the mountainsides of ...

Colorado speaks up in GMO debate

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Support of Proposition 37 in California has dropped by more than 19 percent and has created a tight race in the weeks leading up to the Nov. 6 election...

Getting smarter about sustainability

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On Earth Day in 1970, a group of dedicated students on the University of Colorado Boulder campus did something unprecedented. They created the first-ever student-facilitated and -organized environmental center. In years following, CU-Boulder students would continue ...

Drifting toward answers on lost crops

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If you shop with any regularity at the Abbondanza stall at the farmers’ market, you might have noticed some gaps in their inventory this fall. Dried beans and winter squash are mostly what Shanan Olson, co-owner, says people have commented on missing. They ask why, ...

Short film, big message

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They all agree: there was more work than time to do it — the students of Damian Tate’s Career Digital Arts program and Heather Riffel’s Urban Agriculture program at Arapahoe Ridge High School had seven weeks, from Jan. 6 to Feb. 21, to make a short film about how ...