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Pesticides are made to kill something somewhere — it says it in the name and there is always a trade-off, says Pierre Mineau, Ph.D., co-author of a new study that found that pesticides are the leading cause of grassland bird deaths...

This story is part of Our Road to Recovery, our coverage of the 2013 Boulder County floods...

It`s a little pocket of greenery, an unpainted fence, a worn driveway leading off the west side of Boulder’s North Broadway, up a slope to a strip of scruffy industrial buildings...

  A year shy of graduating from Boulder’s Fairview High School, Eric Glustrom went to Uganda in 2002 to make a documentary about the plight of thousands of refugees from surrounding warring nations. He met an orphaned youth about his age, Benson Oliver, whose one ...

Changes to the Endangered Species List In early January, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) replied to many petitions regarding the Endangered Species List,...

After he retired from masonry construction in 1989, Robert Barlow decided he’d use his free time for a little business, buying and selling cans and other discarded aluminum. The modest Boulder business soon expanded to cover other kinds of metals, but it has the...

Part of the problem with plastic — as much as we enjoy clear plastic wraps, resealable food containers, and infant incubators — is that plastics, once created, don’t ever go away. Scientifically speaking, plastic polymers do not break down to their basic minerals, ...

Dirk Hobman wants to take people on a journey through time, drilling down through frigid layers of history, past the era of the first...

Saving a piece of land from human activity actually requires a whole lot of human activity and cooperation. Years of it, really. In addition to those years of effort on the part of people, it takes a couple ingredients that also seem to be in short supply these days...

Boulder Weekly has always made environmental reporting a top priority. Looking back through our archives paints a striking picture of just how much has...

When the Fourmile Canyon fire destroyed David and Emily Takahashi’s home in 2010, they had no idea that they were starting down a long...

If Boulder was big enough to qualify for the list of largest U.S. cities ranked for energy efficiency, it would knock Denver out of the top 10, coming in at No. 7...