Boulderganic

‘Tree hugging and all of that’

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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

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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

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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...

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SOUTHERN UTAH LAND USE PLAN STRUCK DOWN IN FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT...

Boulder celebrates its love affair with bicycles

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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

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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

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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...

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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

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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

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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

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