Boulderganic
Deforestation intensifies warming in the Amazon Rain Forest
Fires raging across the Amazon in recent weeks have gripped the world’s attention and renewed concerns over deforestation in this iconic ecosystem. The widespread...
El Nino and the Colorado; India’s solar program
Colorado River below average despite strong El Nino
Water levels and rainfall for the Colorado River basin were below-average in January and February, and will...
Local author personalizes sustainability
From the outside looking in, there is a lot to learn from centenarians, people who live to be one hundred years old or older....
Whose lands should those be?
Among the bevy of bills introduced at the start of the Colorado legislative session in January was Senate Bill 15-039, which takes a complex spin on a question that’s increasingly coming up in western states’ legislatures: Who should hold jurisdiction over public ...
eco-briefs
EXXON VALDEZ RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTINUED COLLAPSE OF ALASKAN FISHERIES, STUDY SUGGESTS...
50 years of wild and scenic rivers
The river had dropped two feet in as many days prior to our excursion, our guide told us. But the water in the Cache...
ONE WOMAN, ONE FARM
Audrey Levatino is a self-sufficient farmer — she has to be since, she runs it singlehandedly. So when it came to using a chainsaw, she knew she had to overcome her trepidation...
The true cost of travel
By paying less than $14, you can offset the carbon emissions you produce from one round trip flight from Denver to Los Angeles in economy class...
Global warming meltdown in the Rockies?
Anyone who tackles a tough summit like Tenmile Peak, above Frisco, probably is already tuned in to the risks of the high alpine zone — rockfall, changeable weather, equipment failure. But a snowboarder who was injured in a May 2010 avalanche on the peak may add a new...
Environment as experience
Music is spontaneous and very much alive. It is a type of experience. That is, according to David Amram, a prolific composer who has...
Heating up alternative energy
Colorado is primed to be powered by solar thermal energy, but one big challenge stands in the way: No one seems to know about it...
In the name of freedom
Carol Walker of Longmont can tell a wild horse by the look in its eyes, an expression of the untamed vastness of the once wild West. For Walker, the author of Galloping to Freedom, a photographic documentation of the plight of wild horses in Wyoming, there is a sense...
