Lightning bugs light up the sky in scattered pockets across the state, luring sightseers and sparking research that could one day guide reintroduction efforts
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Posted inOpinion Columns
Carman: As the planet cooks, the bill is about to come due to the oil and gas goons, finally
The oil and gas industry has known about its impact on climate change for 50 years. Now it’s time to pay up.
Posted inEnergy
Colorado has lofty goals to go all-electric. But does the state have enough electricians?
As federal and state incentives kick in, industry experts fear there aren’t enough skilled electricians to help meet the demand for EV chargers and heat pumps
Posted inCartoons
Drew Litton: Colorado weather gripes are always in season
Cartoonist Drew Litton obsreves that temperatures may shift from endless cold to the warmth of spring, but in Colorado, complaining about the weather is never out of season.
Posted inClimate
Ski resorts in Colorado and around the world are embracing a new role: climate activist
While many resorts are focused on reducing their emissions, others are going much further, leveraging their influence to shift public opinion and pass legislation.
Posted inClimate
Aspen adopts strict new building codes for homes, aligning residential construction with the city’s climate goals
To hit net-zero by 2050, Aspen says it needs new building codes and construction regulations to reduce greenhouse emissions
Posted inEnergy
How Coloradans can find home electrification rebates and save big
We sorted through new and tantalizing layers of federal, state, Xcel and local credits for buying clean heat pumps, water heaters and more
Posted inBusiness
Oil and gas and cryptocurrency miners are Colorado’s new odd couple. And they’re making quite a bit of coin.
JACKSON COUNTY — Tan pump jacks, 140-year-old oil field technology, bob up and down amid the purple sage in this rural corner of Colorado, lifting oil from deep below and also fueling a very 21st century frenzy: cryptocurrency mining. The pump jack wells are tied to natural gas generators powering trailers filled with bitcoin mining […]
Posted inColoradans, Education, Environment, News
All the cool Colorado universities and colleges have one: a mountain campus
This fall, about 1,500 first-year University of Denver students will take turns descending winding mountain roads toward a cluster of rustic cabins, an open field containing a ropes course and barely any cellphone service. It’s something of a “digital desert,” said Jeremy Haefner, chancellor of the University of Denver, but it offers an amenity hard […]
Posted inClimate, Environment, News
Experts at Colorado conference warn of “small window” to act amid deepening climate crisis
Some of the nation’s leading climate scientists Monday sounded an alarm about the urgency of addressing climate change over the next decade, as a key index used to measure humans’ impact on the warming planet ticked higher. “Unfortunately,” said Ko Barrett, a senior climate advisor to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a vice […]