Boulderganic
Boulder’s sustainable stake in global palm oil
In recent years, a wave of companies have committed to improving the way they source one of the world’s most popular, most environmentally destructive, most...
Slow-moving disaster reaches Longmont
Longmont is joining Boulder in a hotter future, with more pollution and potentially worse floods at the hand of a tiny, jewel-colored insect.
The emerald...
Just another plant
In five test fields across the state, hemp plants are pushing toward the sun in the nation’s first hemp seed certification program. The global...
Hotter and hotter; Earth’s quasi satellite
Summers to get hotter and hotter
New research from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NOAA) shows that at the planet’s current heating rate, in...
CU Athletics wants water back in the Colorado
Every year the University of Colorado Boulder athletic department, CU Athletics, uses 12 million gallons of water in the locker rooms, keeping the fields...
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...
Light pollution; Fracking regs shut down
Night sky becomes light sky
A new map of the sky reveals that light pollution is so prevalent, most Americans can’t see the Milky...
New exhibit plants viewers in the world of seeds
Environmental concerns have been ingrained in multimedia artist Sybille Palmer since she was 10 years old. Palmer spent her teenage years in Leverkusen, Germany,...
Pollination and pollution
High temps interfere with pollination
Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem looked into the effect temperature has on floral smells, a method flowers use...
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...
Dark undercurrents of consumer culture
There is an element of concealment in the installation art show Material Nature by Katie Caron, on exhibition at Longmont’s Firehouse Art Center, a...
U.S. ivory laws; Aerial seed bombing
Most ivory sales now illegal in United States
On June 2 President Obama signed a measure introduced by the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) that...
