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It Takes A Village 鈥� And A Lot Of Money 鈥� To Save An Aquifer

Luke Runyon

In the summer of 2002, water pumps in Colorado鈥檚 San Luis Valley stopped working.The center pivot sprinklers that coax shoots from the dry soil and turn鈥�

Environment

Cities Cope With Polluted Ag Runoff, Create Their Own Pollution Too

Peggy Lowe

Standing on a platform above the eastern bank of the Missouri River at the Kansas City, Missouri, Water Services鈥� intake plant is like being on the deck鈥�

Environment

Raton Basin Most At Risk Place In Colorado For 2016 Quakes

Stephanie Paige Ogburn

Colorado is one of several states at risk for earthquakes caused by human activity, according to a new map and analysis released by federal scientists.The鈥�

Environment

USGS Research Finds Human Activity Leading Reported Cause Of Bat Deaths

Stephanie Paige Ogburn

How do bats die? Over time, the answer to that question has changed.They used to die by accident. Or by getting eaten. Perhaps they got caught in a鈥�

Environment

Mercury, Selenium Accumulating In Grand Canyon Stretch Of Colorado River

Stephanie Paige Ogburn

The Colorado River rushes through the Grand Canyon in a powerful pulse. Trips down the remote river are legendary for knock-down rapids and gorgeous鈥�

Environment

Fracking's Water Use Varies Across Colorado And Other Boom States

Stephanie Paige Ogburn

Opponents of hydraulic fracturing often comment on its high water use. Yet a comprehensive total of just how much water used during the process has been鈥�

Austin Holland, research seismologist at the Oklahoma Geological Survey, gestures to a chart of Oklahoma earthquakes in June 2014 as he talks about recent earthquake activity at his offices at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Okla. The state had three times as many earthquakes as California last year.

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Oklahomans Feel Way More Earthquakes Than Californians; Now They Know Why

Joe Wertz

The U.S. Geological Survey issues a report Thursday on quakes linked to oil and gas drilling, but Oklahoma has said that the industry's wastewater disposal is the cause. What's unknown is a solution.

Environment

Scientists Call For Better Monitoring, Transparency With Injection Linked Quakes

Stephanie Paige Ogburn

Scientists with the University of Colorado Boulder and the U.S. Geological Survey are calling for changes in monitoring and addressing human-caused鈥�

Environment

Learning How White-Nose Kills Bats May Be Key To Saving Them

Stephanie Paige Ogburn

White-Nose Syndrome, a disease famous for killing millions of bats in the Eastern United States, has not yet made its way to Colorado 鈥� something wildlife鈥�

This October 2008 photo, provided by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, shows a brown bat with its nose crusted in fungus.

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Good 暗黑爆料 For Bats! Things Are Looking Up For Stemming Disease Spread

Brian Mann

The disease known as white-nose syndrome has killed millions of bats, but scientists are seeing hopeful signs that some bat colonies are recovering.