Boulderganic

After suffering more than 15 years of a mountain pine beetle outbreak, Colorado’s forests are now facing another bark beetle epidemic. Last year, 183,000 acres of Colorado’s forests were infested with the spruce beetle, bringing the total acreage affected by spruce ...

In April, Greenpeace released a report showing that the United States led the world in electricity consumption in 2007, with 3,923 billion kilowatt hours (kwH). Following the U.S. are other industrialized countries; China is second, followed by Russia and Japan. The ...

There’s no doubt that U.S.-based fracking — the process through which oil and gas deposits are blasted from shale deposits deep underground — has caused a revolution in worldwide energy supplies...

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 legislators have repeatedly failed to pass legislation for product stewardship, which requires manufacturers to share the costs of disposing of products they create. Almost half of U.S...

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...

You might call it “the other solar power” — the kind that won’t be affected no matter what happens with Xcel Energy’s debated rebates for photovoltaic panels...

The Women’s Wilderness Institute, a Boulder-based non-profit organization focused on helping women build strength and courage through wilderness experiences, recently teamed up with the Sierra Club and the University of Michigan to research the benefits of outdoor ...

The National Park Experience will premier its film, Love in the Tetons, on Feb. 8 at eTown Hall in Boulder. The goal of the film series, National Park Experience, is to revive the adoration for national parks through true and diverse stories of people’s ...

METHANE LEAK IN LOS ANGELES CONTINUES A massive leak at a natural gas storage facility near the Porter Ranch community in Los Angeles has...

MEALWORMS CAPABLE OF BIODEGRADING PLASTIC, RECENT REPORT FINDS...

If you were a teenager in 1967, Berkeley was the place to be. The Summer of Love was beaming with a newfound madness, and...