Amendment 64 passed in Colorado with nearly 55 percent voter support, but it is still unclear how best to regulate marijuana – including on the road. Amendment 64 does not touch the issue of driving under the influence of drugs (DUID), an issue that is highly contested within the state of Colorado and among the nation’s remaining 49 …
Audio slideshow by Chris Doorley Words by Lucy Higgins “I broke my neck 16 years ago in a diving accident,” Topher Downham said as he sat on the porch of Chautauqua Park’s Ranger Cottage. Although the accident left him a paraplegic, Downham, who is the education and outreach coordinator at the city of Boulder’s Open …
Strong winds and heavy snows have turned the city’s Skunk Creek Greenway Trail into a tree graveyard By Breanna Draxler The so-called “treemageddon” in Boulder this year has turned the banks of Skunk Creek into a tangle of trunks and broken branches. Early snows and strong winds delivered a devastating one-two punch to the city’s …
By Tom Yulsman Like a spring avalanche, snowpack in Colorado has plunged off a precipice. Statewide, snowpack usually peaks in early to mid-April, but this year it began to melt off rapidly in early March. On March 1, snowpack in most of the mountainous parts of the state was between 70 and 89 percent of …
6 Mar 2013
In the right circumstances probiotic supplements can benefit the human gut, but are they they right choice for you?
8 Feb 2013
Experts agree that 2012 was one of the hottest and driest years on record, and so far this year there has not been enough precipitation, either fallen or forecasted, to indicate that the situation will improve.
5 Feb 2013
The nation's growing problem of how to dispose of nuclear waste from power reactors can’t be solved through science alone, according to the co-authors of a new book on high-level nuclear waste.
6 Nov 2012
Paleoclimatologist Jim White spends as much time in the lab as in the public eye, and he’s here to set the record straight: really, folks, climate change is not as complicated as it seems.
6 Nov 2012
What happens when we stop thinking and trust our guts? Just what one would expect: we are wrong.
24 Oct 2012
In a city known for heavy industry, environmental issues and problems with suburban sprawl, sustainable practices might be the antithesis of their primary goal for ambitious growth.
15 Oct 2012
Experts say that to keep homes out of dangerous fire zones, the high costs of wildfires must shift away from the federal government to local government and homeowners.
24 Sep 2012
The federal government recognizes and protects wild horses as “living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West.” The reality of managing herds, however, has proved problematic.
12 Sep 2012
Since he started sailing years ago, David Noone had his attention focused on climate. Now, the National Science Foundation is recognizing him as the next big thing in climate science and engineering.
21 Mar 2012
Americans have made it clear on many occasions that they don’t want commercialism in their parks. But just how far do the reaches of corporate influence extend?
