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As divestment from fossil fuels grows, why environmentalists should do more
Divestment, recently endorsed by active environmentalists like Bill McKibben, has been one of the most popular eco-friendly ideas of recent times. The term refers to removing investments in fossil fuels, oil exploration and other businesses that take advantage of the...
Digging for the Truth
Tensions between Nederland and a mysterious mining company have escalated since the state ordered the mine to cease and desist
Newborn, 3 children among 7 dead in Chicago-area fire
CHICAGO — A Sunday morning fire tore through a Chicago-area apartment house, killing at least seven people, including a newborn and three other children...
Police seek break-in suspect
Boulder Police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating one of the suspects in the Jan. 10 break-in at a building housing a medical marijuana dispensary at 1121 Broadway. Police arrested a 23-year-old Denver transient, identified as Robert Michael Grant, but ...
3D Solar Structures Create More Power in Small Spaces
Right now, designing a solar power installation generally means...
GoDaddy flatly denies being hacked by Anonymous
Domain host GoDaddy.com said today its service outage Sept. 10 was not the result of hackers, contesting a claim by a member of Anonymous who said he (or she) had hacked the hosting service...
America’s ‘Most Polluted’ Lake Finally Comes Clean
Onondaga Lake in Syracuse, N.Y., has often been called the most...
Genetic Engineers Explain Why GE Food Is Dangerous
Aren’t critics of genetically engineered food anti-science? Isn’t the...
On the right track
New regulations and standards on rail tank cars carrying highly flammable crude oil were announced last month. Many of these new regulations are steps in the right direction with regards to improving the safety of the shipment of crude oil via rail, but there are ...
Why Bloomberg’s ‘Big Gulp ban’ could be good for New York...
If the food police has a chief, it may very well be New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. His battles with the food industry are quickly becoming the stuff of legend. And his latest gambit is his boldest yet: Bloomberg just announced a plan to ban the sale of any ...
News roundup: Boulder City Council and other news
Boulder City Council votes against online petition signature gathering
At its virtual meeting on Tuesday, April 21, Boulder City Council voted against an emergency order...














