Boulderganic
Fighting for indoor air quality, mid-fire season
2020 was a historically bad year for wildfires across the western U.S. And 2021 is on pace to be even worse. So far, this...
The ignorance of mainstream media
While climate change coverage in mainstream broadcast news has grown in recent years, people of color, women and even scientists are still significantly underrepresented...
New NCAR exhibit focuses on solutions
It’s a warm and breezy summer morning atop the hill at the west end of Table Mesa Drive, hikers set off from a popular...
‘Climate change is a health issue’
When Dr. Jay Lemery gives presentations on climate and health, one of his slides has two pictures with an arrow between them: one with...
Striving for a more equitable food system
Seemingly every day Netflix adds a food documentary, another farmers’ market opens and more restaurants offer farm-to-table fare. While some obvious improvements are being...
Balancing recreation and conservation
Roger W. Toll stands tall in dirt-crusted work boots. He places his large, weathered hand on the brim of his forehead to shade from the sun, setting his gaze on the expanse before him: a broad formation of earth that gradually rises to sheer stone, guarding the ...
Grant Farms offshoot revives CSA on limited basis
A remnant of Grant Family Farms, the large Wellington organic farm that declared bankruptcy in late 2012, has revived its community-supported agriculture (CSA) program, but on a much smaller scale...
Vanishing ice; Planting trees
Putting numbers to vanishing ice
A paper published in Geographical Review in July announced the development of a database for all research about sea ice...
Wheels, willpower and Way to Go
Twenty-five regional companies are competing to be this year’s first annual Go-Tober smart-commuting winners. At stake: cleaner air, happier employees and $10,000 in congratulatory advertising for the top three companies...
Polluted canvases
Sometimes we need the most literal of images to open our eyes. So it is with Kim Abeles’ art — she creates art with smog so viewers can see the dirty tracks of the way we live in clear outlines. She has enlarged often-overlooked lichen and given them eyes...
BPA exposure linked to prostate cancer
Exposure to low levels of bisphenol A (BPA) during development may make men more susceptible to prostate cancer later in life, according to a new study published Tuesday...
