Boulderganic
Colorado grappling with greenhouse gas inventory
Tallying up greenhouse gas emissions may not be quite as easy as counting your fingers and toes, but it’s a necessary step toward taming the global warming beast, according to experts who have been working hard to complete an updated greenhouse inventory for Colorado...
Women living near pesticide-treated fields have smaller babies
Women in Northern California farm towns gave birth to smaller babies if they lived within three miles of strawberry fields and other crops treated with the pesticide methyl bromide, according to researchers...
Burning down current wildfire management
The message behind the results of new wildfire research is clear: It’s time for a new approach to managing wildfire in the West...
‘The Human Quest’ calls for new Industrial Revolution
Humans have taken over the “planetary driving seat,” according to The Human Quest: Prospering within Planetary Boundaries. Through the “language of art and science,” writer Johan Rockström and photographer Mattias Klum work to steer the world’s “drivers” down a ...
Put your money where your mouth is
At the most recent University of Colorado open Board of Regents meeting, Katie Raitz took the opportunity during open comments to talk fossil fuels, fossil fuel companies and why the University of Colorado should divest from them. “After demonstrated student support...
Under pressure
Fracking has no “widespread, systematic” impacts on drinking water, according to a draft of an Environmental Protection Agency study released June 4, but industry influence on the study invites skepticism...
Loving to grow
It`s a little pocket of greenery, an unpainted fence, a worn driveway leading off the west side of Boulder’s North Broadway, up a slope to a strip of scruffy industrial buildings...
Food out of water
Mickey Mouse has never been known for his green thumb, but a ride dedicated to aquaponics at Disney’s Epcot Center (surely a death-defying thrill) highlights the public curiosity for this growing trend. While an increasing number of people take an interest in ...
Hunting for conservation
If you ask communications staff for Rep. Dan Benishek (R-Michigan) about H.R. 2834, the representative’s proposed bill on hunting and fishing access, they’ll quickly clarify that, despite claims, the bill does not apply to wilderness areas. Benishek probably doesn’t ...
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 ...
Fire smoke may diminish rainfall
All eyes are on the southwest monsoon flow for some relief from Colorado’s record-breaking drought, but there’s a chance that regional and local haze and smoke could inhibit thunderstorm formation, potentially diminishing the chance for significant rains...
