Tag: Global Warming
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Colorado fuel retailers face up to $20,000 fine for failing to post warning stickers about global warming under proposed bill
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save According to a proposal by Democrats at the Colorado state Capitol, up to a $20,000 fine will hang over the heads of every retailer who sells either liquid or gas fuels if they don’t have global warming warning stickers on their pumps and products if…
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Feds invest in Nobel Prize winning technology developed at CU Boulder
A Boulder company just landed federal funding to further develop Nobel Prize winning technology that continuously detects and quantifies methane emitted by oil and gas facilities using a laser that interacts only with methane gas molecules. The U.S. Department of Energy issued a $189 million conditional loan commitment on Jan. 5 to LongPath Technologies, Inc.…
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Tarantu-love: Saving Colorado’s ‘charismatic’ spider
This time of year on the Southeastern plains of Colorado, hundreds of tarantulas emerge out of their dirt-caked homes at dusk and crawl for miles in search of a mate. Not much is known about the behavior of these eight-legged creatures, but last weekend, a team of scientists from the Butterfly Pavilion made the trip…
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Colorado aerospace companies land weather forecasting contracts
NASA recently awarded two aerospace companies with a large Colorado presence work on weather satellites that “will ultimately help save lives by enabling even more accurate weather forecasting,” according news releases. Broomfield-based Ball Aerospace will complete two 20-month studies on new instruments for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s “Geostationary Extended Observations” (GeoXO) program. One…
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Buy your Christmas tree now before they’re gone, Denver area vendors say
Many Christmas tree vendors in metro Denver expect to sell out this season and are urging customers who want the pick of the lot to shop earlier. Supply chain issues have affected the availability of trees this year, along with forest fires and extreme heat in the Pacific Northwest, where many vendors get their inventory. “Our…
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New book spreads joy, education of world’s highest botanical gardens in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In the mid-1990s, during graduate studies at Cornell University, Sarah Chase Shaw spent her summers in Vail working at a garden center. She was selling daisies and the usual annuals and perennials. “That was really the early years of the Betty Ford Alpine Gardens,” Chase…
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TRAILER | High and Dry: Colorado in Drought
HIGH AND DRY: Colorado in Drought: A three-part series from The Gazette begins Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. The severe drought that swept through Colorado in 2020 could be a harbinger of what the future will hold. However, in the arid Southwest, it’s not the first time that such challenges have wrecked lives and livelihoods. In…