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Open house offers info on greenhouses The “High Tunnel Open House” will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Sept. 13 at Rohwer Farms, 10591 Road BB in Cortez. Hosts Heidi and Judy...

DATE: Sep 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Farm, restaurant relationship exemplifies benefits of local food

Twin Buttes, Carver’s relationship exemplifies benefits of local food

DATE: Sep 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

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Growing Partners hires new director Growing Partners of Southwest Colorado announces that Joni Podschun has been named executive director. Podschun grew up in rural Ka...

DATE: Sep 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

4th-graders get free pass to national park system

Your fourth-grader is your family’s free pass to the nation’s national parks. The federal government is giving annual passes to fourth-graders and their families, an effort to ge...

DATE: Sep 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Should Colorado reintroduce wolves?

Top conservation biologist advocates for return of top predator

DATE: Sep 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Invasive tamarisk tough to eradicate

Scourge of Southwest remarkably resilient

DATE: Aug 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

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Mountain Studies to test plant spray The Mountain Studies Institute of Durango and Silverton has joined with Terra Environmental to study the effects of Terra’s EnviroNow, an orga...

DATE: Aug 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Warming seas rising faster than predicted, NASA scientists say

Global sea levels are rising faster than predicted as a result of warming temperatures driven by burning fossil fuels, according to researchers who now say an increase of at least three feet...

DATE: Aug 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Scientists create 360-degree images of Hawaii coral reefs

HONOLULU – Alongside the lush and steep windward coast of the Hawaii island of Oahu researchers are creating images of coral reefs that are in danger of dying because of warm ocean waters. ...

DATE: Aug 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

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Tree farmer earns praise for work The Colorado State Tree Farm Committee has recognized Archuleta County tree farmer Peter Prina as the 2015 Colorado Outstanding Tree Farmer of th...

DATE: Aug 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Lobster population is shifting north; ocean warming blamed

PORTLAND, Maine – The lobster population has crashed to the lowest levels on record in southern New England while climbing to heights never before seen in the cold waters off Maine and other...

DATE: Aug 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Air pollution killing 4,000 in China a day, U.S. study finds

WASHINGTON – Air pollution is killing about 4,000 people in China a day, accounting for 1 in 6 premature deaths in the world’s most populous country, a new study finds. Physicists...

DATE: Aug 13, 2015 | CATEGORY: Good Earth