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Naropa Eco-Resilience group addresses collective climate grief
It was almost one year ago when researchers, politicians and activists from around the world hiked up a mountain in western Iceland to commemorate...
Eco-briefs | Study measures sea rise caused by glaciers, ice sheets
As the world’s glaciers melt, the runoff contributes as much to sea rise as melting ice sheets, according to a study led by Clark University in Worcester, Mass., and the University of Colorado Boulder...
Enlisting the sun
Of all the countries in the world, the United States consumes the most energy. Within the U.S., it is the Department of Defense (DOD), encompassing the Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force, that consumes the most energy, according to the DOD. In 2010, the DOD’s ...
Curing cancer; Plant diversity decreasing
Cell division research could stop cancer
According to the National Institutes of Health, 1.5 million people in the United States are diagnosed with cancer each...
Eco-briefs | New bacterium explains symbiosis with insects
NEW BACTERIUM DISCOVERED IS ‘MISSING LINK’ IN UNDERSTANDING INSECT-BACTERIUM SYMBIOSIS...
Water is Life
I thought of the footage I’d seen of prayerful people being pepper sprayed and maced in the eyes by armored law enforcement at Standing...
Eco-briefs | ‘Chasing Ice’ filmmaker to discuss and debut footage at...
Boulder-based photographer James Balog will discuss his work, which captures the effects of climate change on glaciers around the world, at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 1, at the University of Colorado’s Macky Auditorium...
Lessons from the sky
Wearing hardhats and safety goggles, a group of college students from Colorado huddle in the control room at the Four Corners Coal Power Plant in Farmington, N.M. They prod at the equipment that provides energy to 300,000 households. Almost all the employees at the ...
Local forests under fire
A slew of so-called “wildfire risk reduction” logging projects are proposed for tens of millions of acres of public forests across the Western U.S. —...
Boulder’s Global Greengrants Fund helps Serbian group fight incinerator
In a world where climate change regularly makes headlines, news of environmental victories are a welcome relief. For a group of activists in Belgrade,...
First Nations Families Exposed to Industrial Chemicals
Mothers and children of a First Nations tribe living in one of Canada’s most industrialized regions are highly exposed to estrogen-blocking chemicals, according to a new study...
Climbing for change
In 2003, while hiking miles through the Himalayas of Southern China, Travis Ramos realized he needed to make a change. He traveled door-to-door through a community of potato farmers known as the Nuosu people, who carve out their homes high on the mountainsides of ...