Boulderganic
A visual story of mountain building
Located at the nexus of the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, Boulder’s topography is the ultimate geologic juxtaposition. The change of slope where...
A tale of two talons
The Fort Collins-based Rocky Mountain Raptor Program will team up with local tattoo parlor Claw and Talon for a fundraising event on Sunday, Oct. 11, suggesting that wildlife conservation and tattoos have more in common than you may think...
Union of the people
The justification for “fracking is based in two lies — the first lie is to say that it is safe and nothing happens. That...
Curing cancer; Plant diversity decreasing
Cell division research could stop cancer
According to the National Institutes of Health, 1.5 million people in the United States are diagnosed with cancer each...
CU gridiron gets greener
The next time you’re heading in or out of Folsom Stadium on game day, pay attention to the fact there aren’t any trashcans on the premises. No, this is not some cost-saving measure, and you’re not being asked to haul away your own garbage...
Passing of a giant
South 88th Street in Louisville is no different than the other roads veining through Boulder County.
There’s a fenced-in prairie stretching to the east. To...
Changing lives with freshwater access in South Africa
When Norman Mthethwa arrives back to his village in South Africa, he’s got a tight schedule and a lot of work to do. After...
Capturing carbon
In the U.S., we treat more than 100 trillion gallons of wastewater every year, enough to submerge a mile-wide swath from Boulder to Colorado Springs, one mile deep in wastewater. Treating that water requires 15 gigawatts of electricity, the equivalent of 6,000 wind ...
Colorado forests, they are a-changin’
The heat of climate change has been felt with intensity here in Colorado. This summer, fires like the Waldo Canyon Fire in Colorado Springs and Boulder’s Flagstaff Fire ravaged the state. According to Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) fellow Tim ...
PA announces new regulations on methane emissions; Astronomers have found evidence...
PA announces new regulations on methane emissions
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced new rules to cut methane pollution from the oil and gas sector across...
Starting with extremes
On Feb. 12, as Congress was still finalizing a budget deal for 2018, the Trump Administration released recommendations for 2019’s federal budget, including significant...


















