Boulderganic

Bacteria bricks

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Concrete is by far the most utilized building material around the world. But it’s also responsible for 8% of global carbon dioxide emissions, according...

CU prof: Don’t buy the promise of nuclear energy

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A retired University of Colorado mechanical engineering professor is challenging a new documentary that espouses the virtues of nuclear power...

What has become of the American farm?

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Eating Animals is not out to tell you to become a vegetarian. Instead, the new documentary, directed by Christopher Quinn and produced by Natalie...

A river running

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If Boulder Creek dried up, and the bridge on Broadway spanned nothing but an empty stretch of sand, and it stayed that way for decades, eventually people would forget what it had meant to see a stream running there. To have place to put feet in the water, a green ...

We’re all gonna die

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If you’re keeping track at home, the current administration’s list of budget priorities ranks “the president playing golf” a few small light years ahead...

Vulture lookout

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They can be kind of disgusting,” Wildlife Ecologist at City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks Heather Swanson says with a laugh, before admitting, “I like them. They are cool...

Lost in the wake

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Wind doesn’t abide by state lines or other human-made boundaries. Air moves fast or slow depending on atmospheric conditions, but when its kinetic energy...

Growing roots

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It’s a cold day in late April, blustery and damp, so the farmers at DeLaney Community Farm in Aurora are bundled up. It’s the...

Out of sight, out of mind no more

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In the last 30 years we have lost 50 percent of the world’s coral. This loss is far from arbitrary, and Chasing Coral —...

CU researchers propose an orbital-use tax to help clean up space

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At any given point in time there are hundreds of thousands of particles of debris — approximately 6,000 tons — circulating the planet in...

Light pollution; Fracking regs shut down

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Night sky becomes light sky A new map of the sky reveals that light pollution is so prevalent, most Americans can’t see the Milky...

An annual tradition enables citizens to investigate what’s in their water

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The City of Boulder has had its share of issues with drinking water over the last few years. Perhaps you read about elevated levels...