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Unusual ice circle forms in North Dakota river

BISMARCK, N.D. – When George Loegering saw a large spinning circle of ice in the Sheyenne River while out hunting with relatives, the retired engineer couldn’t believe his eyes. “...

DATE: Nov 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Earth Brief

Master gardener program available The Colorado State University Extension Office in La Plata County is accepting applications for the 2014 Colorado Master Gardener Program until D...

DATE: Nov 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

2 businesses hit green milestone

Durango hotel, gift shop reach energy, wellness, sustainability goals

DATE: Nov 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Sun setting on wolf recovery?

“Sunset is an angel weeping, holding out a bloody sword,” begins Bruce Cockburn’s lyrics for “Pacing the Cage.” I can’t help but identify with these lyrics. Cockburn writes of gr...

DATE: Nov 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Blame game heats up at climate talks

Developing nations want financial help building green economies

DATE: Nov 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

October world’s 7th warmest

The globe had its seventh-warmest October on record, according to data released this week by the National Climatic Data Center. Records go back to 1880. It also marked the 344th c...

DATE: Nov 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Contest aims for a cleaner-burning wood stove

WASHINGTON – Only blocks away, the Energy Department manages the search for quarks and NASA scours the heavens for Earth-like planets. But inside a big white tent on the National Mall, the f...

DATE: Nov 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Scientists warn of hot, sour, breathless oceans

WASHINGTON – Greenhouse gases are making the world’s oceans hot, sour and breathless, and the way those changes work together is creating a grimmer outlook for global waters, according to a ...

DATE: Nov 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Corn crops rise, prairies vanish

In push for green energy, farming practices may worsen global warming

DATE: Nov 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Frackers take to recycling water

Popular recent change reduces use of freshwater, waste creation

DATE: Nov 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Book chronicles businessmen who led fracking boom

Gregory Zuckerman’s book The Frackers tells the unexpected story of how a once-obscure method of producing oil and natural gas from shale rock led to a huge American energy boom – and to a b...

DATE: Nov 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Earth Briefs

Mountain Studies to discuss programs San Juan/Four Corners Native Plant Society will present “Forests, Fens and Medicinal Plants” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Lyceum Room of the ...

DATE: Nov 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

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