Boulderganic

In the digital age, journalism can get lazy. With internet sources and phone interviews, Skype and file-sharing, investigating a story can be done from...

If Boulder was big enough to qualify for the list of largest U.S. cities ranked for energy efficiency, it would knock Denver out of the top 10, coming in at No. 7...

  It`s high noon at Frog Belly Farm near Longmont, and the interns are busy tending newly born goats, chasing escaped piglets, checking beehives, picking and washing herbs and vegetables — in addition to all the other daily chores, such as milking cows and goats, ...

Federal environment officials have failed to adequately oversee hundreds of thousands of wells used to inject toxic oil and gas drilling waste deep underground, according to a new congressional report...

If you’re an eco-conscious commuter, the holiday travel may grow your carbon footprint a few sizes — but if you’re also an eco-conscious gift-giver, then ’tis the season to consider carbon offsets in your holiday shopping...

As the Dark Snow Project reached the end of its inaugural year, its director was feeling anxious...

Energy conservation and efficiency programs tend to benefit people who own their homes. But a new program in Boulder aims to make home energy...

Putting numbers to vanishing ice A paper published in Geographical Review in July announced the development of a database for all research about sea ice...

The November election presents plenty of hot-button issues. But amid the fuss about the economy and health care and other social issues, questions of how to handle our public lands and how to protect our environment also hang in the balance...

Each year that the wind Production Tax Credit has been allowed to expire, the wind energy industry has seen major declines. This year, wind energy faces that possibility for a fourth time in the credit’s 20-year life span...

Humankind’s relationship with psychoactive substances can be traced back thousands of years to religious trances induced by specific plants and fungai. But some substances are more addictive than others, and opium, caffeine and nicotine have become commonplace, in ...

In the state of Colorado, those with water rights already have dibs on the rain that falls on your property, unless you have your own well (and even that has limits...