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There Goes the Sun
Colorado Media Matters recently called out KCOL radio host Keith Weinman for repeating the assertion that global warming is being caused by the...
Two-and-a-half hours to midnight
For about 15 years now I've been participating in an annual survey run by the Asahi Glass Foundation on "Environmental Problems and the Survival...
Part I: Project Rulison Protester Remembers the Bomb
The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, now called the Department of Energy, was experimenting with ways to use atomic energy in a "friendly" way back...
Is the Rulison Nuclear Site Too “Hot” to Drill?
A 43-kiloton nuclear bomb was exploded in 1969 in an experiment called the "Rulison Project" by the US Department of Energy to free up...
Colorado among U.S. leaders in land preservation
Colorado managed to protect more land than it lost to development last year, putting 167,500 acres into conservation easements, purchase and other forms of...
Science Sunday: Arctic Ice, Mars Water, Space Aliens
How low can it go?
Arctic sea ice reached its minimum extent for 2007 on September 16, and was the lowest since satellite record-keeping began...
Toad Beneath the Harrow
The amphibians of the world are disappearing at an alarming rate, for mysterious reasons. Of the 5,743 known species, 43 percent are in decline,...
Western Slope Round-Up: Git Along Lil’ Doggie
This week, we have a mixed breed of stories-from possible wolves in the mountains to recycled snow for flushing toilets in Vail; to saving...
Group Urges Collection of Back Coal Severance Taxes
Colorado Ethics Watch is asking the Colorado Department of Revenue to try to collect $20 million in back coal severance taxes that have not...
Shafroth Says: Strengthen Clean Energy Bills
While his opponents collect endorsements in the early campaigning, CD-2 Democratic hopeful Will Shafroth is collecting positions on issues. In the last few weeks...