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Earth Science

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2011

    CU Environmental Center hosts Aspen Skiing Company VP Auden Schendler tonight

    What does climate change have to do with skiing and snowboarding? Everything, according to Auden Schendler -- Vice President of Sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company, board member of Protect Our Winters, and author of Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2011

    Who's got the 10 1/2? Loveland and A-Basin ride the storm, Protect Our Winters takes it Further

    ​Thinking about taking a snow day and heading for the hills this morning? Crank up the Black Flag and point towards the Continental Divide, because the first snow of the season here in Denver hit ski country even harder, with Loveland reporting over 10 inches this morning at 5 a.m. and Arapaho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    Bring on the ski porn: Level 1 Productions and Matchstick Productions drop new trailers

    ​Something about this recent run of three-digit-degrees days and Monday's closing day at Arapahoe Basin have us looking forward to next ski season already, and it turns out we're not alone: On Monday director Josh Berman and the Denver-based ski porn specialists at Level 1 Productions released ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Colorado youth lead a march on Capitol for climate change

    iMatterXiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez.​Young activists are getting hot over climate change, and representatives of the environmental groups iMatter and Earth Guardians who are plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against the federal government will also be leading a march to the State Capitol Building on ... More >>

  • News

    February 17, 2011

    Six great Colorado hoaxes

    iMatterXiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez.​Young activists are getting hot over climate change, and representatives of the environmental groups iMatter and Earth Guardians who are plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against the federal government will also be leading a march to the State Capitol Building on ... More >>

  • Film

    November 11, 2010

    Flick pick: Pseudo-journalism pervades global warming documentary Cool It

    iMatterXiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez.​Young activists are getting hot over climate change, and representatives of the environmental groups iMatter and Earth Guardians who are plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against the federal government will also be leading a march to the State Capitol Building on ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 23, 2010

    Cave Woman

    iMatterXiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez.​Young activists are getting hot over climate change, and representatives of the environmental groups iMatter and Earth Guardians who are plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against the federal government will also be leading a march to the State Capitol Building on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    Betsy Long: Alleged wrong-way drunk driver is green-biz entrepreneur

    Betsy Long.​Elizabeth "Betsy" Long is accused of drunkenly driving the wrong way on I-25 and causing a crash that killed Mary Warren, a young CSU grad bound for the Peace Corps. It's a far cry from the portrait of Long presented by GreenEdgeDenver.com, a site designed to promote environmental ... More >>

  • Music

    July 1, 2010

    Thao and Mirah With the Most of All

    Monday, July 5, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    Ken Salazar finds oil spilling from Gulf into Colorado

    ​The Deepwater Horizon disaster keeps spilling into my inbox, more than 1,300 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, where there's "oil for miles and miles," Attorney General Eric Holder lamented yesterday in New Orleans. Denver is more than 1,300 miles from the Big Easy, but the disaster has spilled ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 25, 2010

    Flip a Switch

    ​The Deepwater Horizon disaster keeps spilling into my inbox, more than 1,300 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, where there's "oil for miles and miles," Attorney General Eric Holder lamented yesterday in New Orleans. Denver is more than 1,300 miles from the Big Easy, but the disaster has spilled ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2009

    Who do you believe about vanishing Arctic ice: Al Gore or CU's Mark Serreze?

    Would CU's Mark Serreze beat Al Gore in an intellectual duel?​In Copenhagen for the UN climate conference, inconvenient truther Al Gore suggested that the Arctic Ocean could be almost free of ice by 2014. Problem is, Dr. Wieslav Maslowski, the scientist whose work Gore cited in connection with ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 5, 2009

    Green Screen

    Would CU's Mark Serreze beat Al Gore in an intellectual duel?​In Copenhagen for the UN climate conference, inconvenient truther Al Gore suggested that the Arctic Ocean could be almost free of ice by 2014. Problem is, Dr. Wieslav Maslowski, the scientist whose work Gore cited in connection with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2009

    The Obama administration: a Colorado College cabal?

    ​Every presidency has its own biases about the kind of education that makes for good leaders. JFK stacked the deck with Harvard grads; Bush I and Bush II leaned toward Yalies, of course. Snobbery, Eastern elitism, Ivy Leaguism--it's been expected of the White House since the days of Woodrow Wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2009

    Did the spontaneity-free climate-change rally in Greeley have a Mr. Burns touch?

    As we pointed out yesterday, a climate-change rally in Greeley on Wednesday didn't exactly qualify as a grassroots uprising, given the participation of EnergyCitizens.org, an affiliate of the American Petroleum Institute, which opposes legislation to cap greenhouse gases recently passed by the U.S. ... More >>

  • Dining

    February 12, 2009

    Why this Valentine's Day may be your last chance to eat Oysters for years to come

    As we pointed out yesterday, a climate-change rally in Greeley on Wednesday didn't exactly qualify as a grassroots uprising, given the participation of EnergyCitizens.org, an affiliate of the American Petroleum Institute, which opposes legislation to cap greenhouse gases recently passed by the U.S. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2009

    Drink Fat Tire, then walk home

    What is the carbon footprint of a six-pack of Fat Tire amber ale? Do you even care after drinking all six bottles yourself? Two good questions, only one of which is answered in a report issued by the Fort Collins-based New Belgium Brewery, which makes Fat Tire. To find out, the brewery measured t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2008

    DeGette withdraws name from Senate consideration

    Diana DeGette has told Governor Bill Ritter that she's not interested in replacing Ken Salazar in the U.S. Senate. "After serious deliberation and consultation with my family, supporters and colleagues in Congress," she announced today, "I have concluded I can best serve the citizens of the First ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2008

    Is a lump of coal a good thing?

    Gas is less than half what it was a few months ago, and Xcel is actually planning to lower rates after the new year. But savor those cheap energy prices while you can. Like Santa Claus, painful new hikes are coming to town, probably sooner than later.  One lump of coal in the stocking comes court ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2008

    The truth about the Downtown Aquarium's poorly confined piranhas

    As you may have read last week in "Denver Aquarium Unequipped to Handle Piranha Attacks or Reporter Queries," on a recent visit to the Downtown Aquarium I was disturbed to discover just how easy it would be to stick my hand into the open-top piranha tank -- and even more disturbed by my irrational ... More >>

  • News

    September 18, 2008

    With help from the feds, a Denver scientist helps Second Life go nuclear

    As you may have read last week in "Denver Aquarium Unequipped to Handle Piranha Attacks or Reporter Queries," on a recent visit to the Downtown Aquarium I was disturbed to discover just how easy it would be to stick my hand into the open-top piranha tank -- and even more disturbed by my irrational ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2008

    Anarchists Deploy Dayplanners

    As you may have read last week in "Denver Aquarium Unequipped to Handle Piranha Attacks or Reporter Queries," on a recent visit to the Downtown Aquarium I was disturbed to discover just how easy it would be to stick my hand into the open-top piranha tank -- and even more disturbed by my irrational ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2007

    Snowstorm Follows Denver Post Article Predicting Fewer Snowstorms

    As you may have read last week in "Denver Aquarium Unequipped to Handle Piranha Attacks or Reporter Queries," on a recent visit to the Downtown Aquarium I was disturbed to discover just how easy it would be to stick my hand into the open-top piranha tank -- and even more disturbed by my irrational ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 18, 2007

    Changing Climates, Changing Minds

    As you may have read last week in "Denver Aquarium Unequipped to Handle Piranha Attacks or Reporter Queries," on a recent visit to the Downtown Aquarium I was disturbed to discover just how easy it would be to stick my hand into the open-top piranha tank -- and even more disturbed by my irrational ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 4, 2007

    Them Bones

    Ray Troll and Kirk Johnson hunt for fossils.

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2007

    A Nexus of Excess

    Ray Troll and Kirk Johnson hunt for fossils.

  • Calendar

    July 19, 2007

    Chill Out

    Ray Troll and Kirk Johnson hunt for fossils.

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2007

    Live Review: Animal Collective at Cervantes'

    Ray Troll and Kirk Johnson hunt for fossils.

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2007

    Review: Animal Collective @ Cervantes

    Ray Troll and Kirk Johnson hunt for fossils.

  • News

    February 15, 2007

    The Messengers

    TV forecasters have become the target of viewers who are feeling aggravated and paranoid after an exceptionally stormy winter.

  • Home Entertainment

    November 23, 2006

    Bad News With Al

    TV forecasters have become the target of viewers who are feeling aggravated and paranoid after an exceptionally stormy winter.

  • Sports & Recreation

    March 24, 2005

    Best Place to Get Hot

    Mount Princeton Hot Springs Resort

  • People & Places

    March 25, 2004

    Best Hair on a TV Personality -- Male

    Ed Greene, Channel 4

  • News

    December 11, 2003

    Power to the People

    The answer could be blowing in the wind.

  • People & Places

    March 27, 2003

    Best Glasses on a TV Personality

    Stacey Donaldson
    Channel 31

  • People & Places

    March 27, 2003

    Best Dinosaur Detective

    Ken Carpenter
    Denver Museum of Nature & Science

  • Calendar

    March 6, 2003

    Small World

    Where little folks rule

  • News

    May 30, 2002

    Divining Intervention

    Skeptics say dowsers are all wet. But Greg Storozuk believes.

  • Calendar

    May 2, 2002

    Head in the Clouds

    Curious Theatre Company brings a dose of magic realism to the Acoma Center.

  • People & Places

    April 4, 2002

    Best Academic Weatherman

    Roland Madden

  • Sports & Recreation

    April 4, 2002

    Best Colorado Beach Club

    Desert Reef Beach Club

  • News

    January 10, 2002

    Funky Town

    Even though the EPA says Denver's air is getting cleaner, the odor lingers on.

  • Music

    May 24, 2001

    Backwash

    The skies opened up on the Westword Music Showcase. But the bands played on.

  • Sports & Recreation

    March 29, 2001

    Best Place to Be a Junior Meteorologist

    Skinner Middle School

  • Sports & Recreation

    March 29, 2001

    Best Dinosaur Tracks --Indoors

    St. Cajetan Event Center

  • Best of Denver

    June 29, 2000

    Best scientific Web site for kids

    Web Weather for Kids www.ucar.edu/40th/webweather

  • News

    June 22, 2000

    Going With the Flow

    As spring melts into summer, water users along the St. Vrain could find themselves up the creek.

  • Music

    March 30, 2000

    Sounds Like Fun!

    Caribbean Playtime

  • News

    October 30, 1997

    Off Limits

    Caribbean Playtime

  • News

    April 5, 1995

    THE SEARCHERS

    THESE SCIENTISTS AND COPS DIG DEEP FOR THE TRUTH. SOMETIMES THEY UNEARTH MORE.

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