Boulderganic
‘Tree hugging and all of that’
In Civic Area Park, just in front of the Boulder Museum for Contemporary Art (BMoCA), grows a large American linden tree with fissured bark...
Amalgam-nation
In a video called “Smoking Teeth” on the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology’s website, a man takes an extracted tooth and rubs its 25-year-old amalgam filling with a pencil eraser. A phosphorescent screen in the background illuminates mercury ...
Scientific wonderland
On July 14, 2015, the interplanetary space probe known as New Horizons flew past Pluto and gave humans the first up-close view of the...
Eco-briefs | Southern Utah land use plan struck down in federal...
SOUTHERN UTAH LAND USE PLAN STRUCK DOWN IN FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT...
Boulder celebrates its love affair with bicycles
Boulder’s bicycle culture is thriving and lively, and we habitually capture and celebrate it in visual form and as a group. Compare the single man polishing the chrome bumper of his car to the workshop of Community Cycles, which has now graduated 1,000 Earn-a- Bikers...
Pro tips on physical distancing from the nonhuman world
Humans are a social species, and physical interaction keeps us healthy. Or, as the late Bill Withers wrote, “The city really ain’t no bigger...
Mobile methane detection
Bruce Vaughn is behind the wheel of his pickup, and I’m cradling an iPad in the passenger seat. The screen shows a GPS map of our location and a colored line behind where we’ve traveled...
Cricket is the new cow
Along Morrison Road, in west Denver, there’s a 40-foot shipping container that houses 15,000 crickets, give or take — they aren’t the easiest insects...
Guess what: It’s no longer ‘appropriate or necessary’ to regulate mercury...
On April 16, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruled that it was no longer “appropriate and necessary” to regulate coal-fired power plants in the...
Summer food drive and concert series
Conscious Alliance has a simple slogan: “Art that Feeds.” With the help of bands, music venues and concertgoers, the Boulder-based nonprofit provides hunger relief...
New lines for the battlegrounds
When the lines for the statehouse are redrawn after this year’s reapportionment, more competitive districts could cost Democrats seats in the House, leaving them facing a Republican supermajority. Based on the voting record of the last year, that could make it tough ...
Washing away a harvest: Contamination ruins Boulder County crops
This story is part of Our Road to Recovery, our coverage of the 2013 Boulder County floods...
















