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Environment/Energy

Poll Finds Strong Support for Colorado Wilderness

According to a poll released today by a coalition of Colorado conservation groups, there is strong and broad support for protecting additional public lands...

Global Warming: Adaptation vs Mitigation

Reports issued this year by the Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change find greater and growing evidence of a human impact on the global average...

Sportsmen, Environmentalists React to Oil and Gas Impacts

The rapid development of oil and gas drilling on public land in the Rocky Mountain States has united former opponents-sportsmen and environmentalists-to work together...

Live Long and Prosper

If you want to live a long time, move to Colorado (or Hawaii or New Mexico). According to Eons, a website devoted to healthy aging,...

Will Shafroth: Not Just an Environmentalist

Will Shafroth arrived for our interview on a battered silver mountain bike, which is not unusual for a Boulder environmentalist, but it is for...

We Like Our Bedrooms

The phrase "bedroom community" used to mean a quaint suburban lifes epitomized by friendly neighbors and white picket fences. The U.S. Census Bureau blows...

Ancient Drought Holds Clues to Warming Future

The distant past holds some bad news for western water managers in a warming world. Researchers have found evidence of a drought that lasted...

The Birds and the Peetz Wind Farm

Xcel Energy, FPL Energy and Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter broke ground on Wednesday for what will be the nation's second-largest wind energy facility at...

Udall, Salazar Seek Roan Plateau Protection

Congressmen John Salazar and Mark Udall are working together to delay oil and gas development on the Roan Plateau, a unique area of wildlife...

RMNP Wilderness Compromise Agreed

The Colorado congressional delegation has agreed on legislation that will designate 249.339 acres of Rocky Mountain National Park land as wilderness. The proposal for the...
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