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About of half of the record warmth of 2006 can be attributed to human-caused greenhouse gas warming, according to research by several Colorado researchers.
Based...
Rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may be changing the makeup of Colorado's grasslands from grasses that are hospitable to livestock grazing to woody...
<at bottom, there's hope
Two primary human inflammatory bowel diseases -- Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis -- are apparently the result of the imbalances of...
Colorado Mining Association president Stuart Sanderson says that if the state wants to increase the amount of severance tax that the coal industry pays,...
Some fairly simple and nonintrusive regulation might reduce the loss from wildfires in the wildland-urban interface zone if the findings of research released today...
Carbon geoengineering may cause drought
One potential method for dealing with global warming that's developed some legs recently is geoengineering. These are often huge, Rube...
Colorado Ethics Watch is considering what legal avenues might be available for recovering about $40 million in coal severance taxes that haven't been paid...