Boulderganic
Banning uranium mining; Dropping grid-use fee
Colorado rally adds to voices calling to ban uranium mining in the Grand Canyon
On Aug. 23 in Fort Collins, environmentalists from Environment Colorado joined...
Climate change or global warming?
More Americans say the term “global warming” is bad news than take that view when the term “climate change” is used instead, according to a recent study from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communications and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change ...
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 ...
Raining on the animal parade
Half of the mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles living in Colorado’s mountains are at risk of becoming extinct over the next century, according to a recent paper co-authored by a University of Colorado professor...
eco-briefs
INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE REPORT INDICATES SEVERITY OF CLIMATE CHANGE...
Sowing seeds of tolerance in the agriculture industry
An inclusive workplace environment means everything in a world that grows smaller every day. The U.S. agriculture industry, dominated by migrant workers from all...
Fire mitigation tangles with marketplace
Some 9,000 homes sit just west of Boulder city limits in Boulder County’s fire zone number one — the area most vulnerable to wildfire...
Colorado grappling with greenhouse gas inventory
Tallying up greenhouse gas emissions may not be quite as easy as counting your fingers and toes, but it’s a necessary step toward taming the global warming beast, according to experts who have been working hard to complete an updated greenhouse inventory for Colorado...
Of mountains and molecules
Arlene Blum, Ph.D., has crossed mountains and conquered mountainous obstacles...
eco-briefs
Bark beetle kill causes increase in stream flow and affects water quality in Colorado...
A new place for old waste
After 15 years of planning and three years of compiling surplus furniture from other county offices, the new Boulder County Hazardous Materials Management Facility opened on April 20...
