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Test flight of low-cost miniature solar observatory The Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) tested its Solar Instrument Pointing Platform (SSIPP) on Aug. 29, in San Antonio,...

The question came up about a year and a half ago among the advanced permaculture design students taught by Marco Lam as part of Naropa University’s environmental studies department...

BPA found in linings of canned foods A new report released March 30 finds Bisphenol A (BPA) in the linings of two-thirds of America’s canned...

Nitrogen from agriculture bigger problem than believed Humans have long known that agriculture contributes to surface and groundwater pollution, particularly from nitrates that run off from...

 If you’ve ever skied, it’s unlikely anyone has to tell you there’s a difference between the way the locals approach the mountain and the way gapers from the Midwest approach it. Locals are often the first on and last off the lift. But the Ski Area Citizen’s ...

For the first time in more than 20 years of United Nations negotiations, the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21) aims to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate, with the goal of keeping global warming below 2 degrees Celsius and taking ...

This story is part of Our Road to Recovery, our coverage of the 2013 Boulder County floods...

Humans have more than doubled the wildfire season in the U.S. People — rather than natural causes — were responsible for 84 percent of...

From the moment they are born, sea turtles fight to survive. Buried alive, they dig themselves out and evade hungry crabs and birds as they crawl to the ocean, where they begin a long and treacherous migration. One out of 1,000 will survive into adulthood. And those ...

Signs of atmospheric recovery New research shows that the ozone hole above Antarctica is shrinking. The study, led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology chemist Susan...

After one year of labor intensive farm work, August Miller and his wife decided to pack up and take the knowledge and experience they learned while working on a farm in Paonia, Colo., to their own community in Boulder County. Their mission: to offer residents ...

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 ...