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Sun powers low-income residents’ homes

Nonprofit launches a new solar-energy program in Colorado

DATE: Sep 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Earth Briefs

Residents reminded to be bear aware Colorado Parks and Wildlife reminds residents to be bear aware. Black bears typically accumulate their winter-fat stores in the fal...

DATE: Sep 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Navy training, testing might be killing whales, dolphins

HONOLULU – Navy training and testing could inadvertently kill hundreds of whales and dolphins and injure thousands over the next five years, mostly as a result of detonating explosives under...

DATE: Sep 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Slow gardening: It’s a lifestyle, not a race

Felder Rushing is not a man to be hurried. This former county extension agent turned folklorist, author and lecturer is an advocate of slow gardening – emphasizing the process over the produ...

DATE: Aug 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Earth Brief

Conservation group receives federal grant Sen. Michael Bennet has announced that San Juan Resource Conservation and Development in Durango has won a $96,415 grant from the Interio...

DATE: Aug 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

So far, it’s a split decision on fracking, health

PITTSBURGH – A project examining the local health effects from natural gas drilling is providing some of the first preliminary numbers about people who may be affected, and the results chall...

DATE: Aug 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Next target for drones: Weeds

Boulder businessmen look to sell surveillance service to farmers

DATE: Aug 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Drowning in mud

Fish choke to death on silt as deluge floods nearly dry river

DATE: Aug 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

When the refuge becomes the threat

Hundreds of protected desert tortoises could fall victim to federal funding woes

DATE: Aug 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Mosquitoes far worse this summer in parts of U.S.

WASHINGTON – The tiny mosquito all too often has man on the run. And this summer, it seems even worse than usual. “You can’t get from the car to inside our house without getting a...

DATE: Aug 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Tour de Farms will visit Durango, Animas Valley

The seventh annual Tour de Farms is scheduled Saturday. Two bicycle tours, a long ride and a short ride, will feature agriculture in the Animas Valley and around Durango. A 30-mil...

DATE: Aug 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

His lonely mission

N. Dakota’s sole Sierra Club staff member pushes back against industry

DATE: Aug 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

About a dozen cutbow trout thrown from a Colorado Parks and Wildlife truck

Durango High School baseball defeats Montrose 8-4 on Saturday

Photos: Senior day for Durango High School boys lacrosseDHS boys lacrosse defeats Montrose High School 17-7

DHS boys lacrosse defeats Montrose High School 17-7

Photos/video: Galloping alongThe Rio Grande Southern Galloping Goose No.5

The Rio Grande Southern Galloping Goose No.5

Photos: It’s all about sportsmanship at annual Bowker Games

Play ball: Demons in action at homeDurango High School baseball wins over Montezuma-Cortez on Tuesday

Durango High School baseball wins over Montezuma-Cortez on Tuesday

Photos: Hands Off! RallyAbout 1,000 people participate on Saturday in the Hands Off! Rally in Durango

About 1,000 people participate on Saturday in the Hands Off! Rally in Durango

Photos: Hadestown Durango High School Troupe 1096 rehearse Hadestown Teen Edition

Durango High School Troupe 1096 rehearse Hadestown Teen Edition

DHS lost to Grand Junction High School 10-4 on Friday afternoon