The iron-air battery systems are needed to back up a grid increasingly powered by solar and wind
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Colorado researchers get $1 million to find ways to keep bats out of wind turbine blades
Bats will get help avoiding wind turbines thanks to a $1 million grant from the Department of Energy, which announced Thursday it’s giving the Golden-based National Renewable Energy Lab funding to study how light from the enormous structures impacts bats and research ways to keep the mammals from flying into them. It’s all part of […]
Posted inHealth
Colorado is having the worst season for West Nile virus in the country
Colorado’s West Nile case total is so far more than double that of any other state
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Proposal to ban gas lawn mower sales in the Denver area is severely cut back
State health staff recommends limiting local government use of ozone-creating lawn equipment, rather than the sales ban metro experts want
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Colorado wants to create carbon-capture hubs across the state. But locals aren’t sold.
State officials are all in on making Pueblo, Yuma and other areas into carbon-capture hubs, for jobs and revenue. But neighbors of the smokestacks don’t want more carbon under their ground.
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Colorado ranchers can kill wolves that are attacking livestock, federal wildlife officials say
Wolf reintroduction on Western Slope is on track for this year, U.S. wildlife officials say; still no word on where wolves will come from
Posted inEquity
8 Colorado communities will benefit from millions of federal dollars to plant trees
The funding is aimed at helping local governments increase tree cover in underserved communities and boosting equitable access to nature
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Avalanche education needs more women. Here’s how one industry leader in Colorado is recruiting them.
For three years, the American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education has been luring women into the field with mentored programs centered on diversity
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Chaffee County gets $4 million from EPA for new recycling station
Big funding boost follows failures of other green efforts for Buena Vista and the surrounding county.
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Entire Western Colorado wild horse herd removed from range in helicopter roundup
All 122 horses in the West Douglas area were captured in the roundup, with four euthanized and the rest headed to holding pens in Cañon City