Boulderganic

While flying over Utah collecting air quality data in February, researchers with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences encountered a day with ideal weather conditions for measuring the air over an oil and gas field. The Uintah Basin, south ...

EPA VIOLATES FEDERAL LAW WITH WOTUS SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN...

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 ...

On Earth Day in 1970, a group of dedicated students on the University of Colorado Boulder campus did something unprecedented. They created the first-ever student-facilitated and -organized environmental center. In years following, CU-Boulder students would continue ...

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 ...

These plants save lives...

Climate change driven by increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide will not just damage the health of the planet. A UK scientist now warns that it will also make life increasingly difficult for archaeologists, forensic scientists, art experts, fraud and forgery...

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...

It all begins far out over the Pacific, where giant bubbles of moist air rise off the warmest parts of the ocean and become entrained in writhing atmospheric streams moving west to east across the Northern Hemisphere...

A global investigation into every coal-fired power plant proposed in the last five years shows that only one in three of them has actually been built...

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 ...

Although 95 percent of consumers agree that country-of-origin labeling for products should always be available at point of purchase on products, meat processors and producers and members of the World Trade Organization are pushing back against a law that requires ...