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Environment/Energy

Record 2006 Warmth Human-Caused: NOAA Scientists

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...

Woody Weed Replacing Grasses in Eastern Colorado

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...

Science Sunday: Crohn’s Disease, Mayan Crops, and Senior Sex

<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...

Cash for Cleaning Clear Creek

The Clear Creek Watershed Foundation based in Idaho Springs is in line for a $544,000 grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to...

Mining Association Says Coal Tax Is TABOR-ed

Colorado Mining Association president Stuart Sanderson says that if the state wants to increase the amount of severance tax that the coal industry pays,...

Saving Homes from Wildfires

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...

Science Sunday: Geoengineering, Parent Talk, Ice Loss

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...

Allard Joins Roan Plateau Debate

Two of Colorado's oil and gas drilling battlegrounds -- the Roan Plateau near Rifle and the Vermillion Basin outside of Craig- will headline the...

Group Looks at Legal Avenues for Missed Coal Tax Money

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...

Colorado Winds Up With Wind

Colorado was third in the nation in new installed wind generating capacity for the second quarter of 2007, according to the American Wind Energy...
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