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Environment/Energy

Science Sunday: Urban Goes Rural; Rockies hit outerspace

Red Rocks or Red Sox, it's all the same to Colorado in finding "home plate."The suburbs are coming! The suburbs are coming! Private development adjacent...

Low Watts Light Capitol

If you are an incandescent light bulb inside the Capitol building, your life span just got shorter. According to House Speaker Andrew Romanoff, the...

It Droppeth as the Gentle Rain

Forest fires release 44 metric tons of mercury each year.Forest fires release about 44 metric tons (about 48 short tons) of mercury into the...

Ritter to Announce Major Climate Change Plan

Gov. Bill Ritter is going to unveil one of his newest goals in November-- fighting global warming: "It's not that we should do it...

Frogs Take on EPA and Atrazine — and Lose

The Environmental Protection Agency says that amphibians are safe around the herbicide atrazine. The company that makes atrazine paid for EPA's studies. Independent researchers...

Science Sunday: Are We Alone?

Astronomers outline methods for finding earth-like planets orbiting distant stars.There are two schools of thought about the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe....

Human Shields

There was a moose wandering around Sil-Terhar Motors in Broomfield earlier this month. Everybody wondered what the heck he was doing there. Maybe the...

Severance Tax Change Could Make Colorado $10 Billion Dollars Richer

You decide -- $10 billion for Colorado's roads, education, healthcare and growth impacts or $10 billion for the energy industry's profit line? That's the...

Science Sunday: Worms, Work and the Great Plains

A weekly look at weird, wacky and wonderous science news.Longer life for worms Cellular defects in tiny worms used in scientific research may point the...

Oil and Gas Development Poses Land Conservation Challenges

Oil and gas development in the Rockies presents private land conservation groups with new issues to deal with in the protection of land and...
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