Water Fellows chart course toward change and future careers
Connie Cox became interested in water because she grew up without it on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation. For Dominique…
Category: Climate and Environment
Students unearth stories from Central City’s former red-light district
For most college students, summer doesn’t involve hauling buckets of dirt under the blazing sun. But for a class in…
From her family farm to China, MSU Denver grad carries a world of experience with her to law school
A lot of students spend their semester studying abroad consumed with seeing the sights, sampling the food and experiencing a…
Dreams come true for students in the environmental sciences
Growing up in Durango, Peter Ferraro was keenly familiar with mountain ecosystems. But it was a trip to Pawnee National…
5 ways to help Colorado’s backyard birds thrive
Every spring, metro Denver becomes ground zero for migrating birds on their way to nesting grounds nationwide. As temperatures warm,…
Lives at risk without translated storm and fire alerts, experts warn
The termination of a contract to translate National Weather Service bulletins and other products into Spanish, Mandarin, Vietnamese, French and…
Brewing up summer vibes
There’s hardly a cooler place to catch a summer concert than Denver Botanic Gardens. The venue’s scenic amphitheater invites music…
Love it or hate it, daylight saving time should be nothing to lose sleep over
Daylight saving time returns Sunday morning, reviving concerns about the tradition’s health impacts, along with debate about whether the benefits…
How close are we to reaching the Red Planet?
Organizations such as NASA and SpaceX have long shared the ambition of reaching Mars. It is, after all, the most…
Microplastics might be worse than you think. Here’s why
Just when it seemed the news about microplastics’ potential for harm couldn’t get worse, an environmental researcher at Metropolitan State…