Turning off power is a last-ditch strategy for utilities to reduce the risk that their systems could spark wildfires. In most states, deciding whether to take that step is up to utilities.
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Misleading potency labels can disrupt medical dosages, misguide recreational users and erode trust in the industry.
Experts explain the context behind the Supreme Court’s ruling on Donald Trump’s eligibility to appear on presidential ballots.
Whether you’re ascending to high altitudes for casual travel or for adventure tourism, there are specific strategies to help you acclimate and reduce the likelihood of altitude sickness.
A hot, dry summer on the heels of a wet winter raises the risk of wildfires.
A retired federal judge examines the oral arguments the Supreme Court heard on a case in which Colorado has blocked former President Donald Trump from the ballot.
With their upcoming decision concerning whether Donald Trump can appear on the Colorado ballot, Supreme Court justices face the possibility that the ruling could be ignored or defied by the public.
Whatever its decision, the court risks once again being seen as politically partisan.
Lawyers submitting briefs to the Supreme Court in the Trump Colorado ballot case must file a ‘certificate of word count.’ Why? As one judge put it, lawyers’ briefs are ‘too long, too long, too long.’
Standards are vague, and the IRS, which is tasked with enforcement, hasn’t provided much oversight.
The first shoe has dropped in the Supreme Court’s process of considering whether Donald Trump is eligible to be president.
At one time, perhaps as many as 2 million gray wolves roamed the North American continent. But now those numbers are down to a few thousand.
A historian and legal scholar of a key part of the US Constitution explains what happens now that the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled Trump cannot be on the state’s presidential ballots.
The opt-out movement caught on heavily in Colorado in the late 2010s. A group of education scholars is exploring the reasons why.
Wildfire smoke, even from fires far away, carries potentially harmful gases that, once inside, tend to stick around. An air quality specialist offers an easy, cheap, effective way to deal with it.
Fires in Canada have sent smoke across several US states, leaving cities including New York, Chicago and Denver with some of the worst air quality in the world – even far from the flames.
Fires here can affect meltwater timing and water quality, worsen erosion that triggers mudslides, and much more, as two scientists explain.
Reservoirs and streams are in good shape in California and the Great Basin, but groundwater and ecosystems are another story. And then there’s the Colorado River Basin.
Less than a century ago, Colorado hunted, trapped and poisoned all the wolves within its borders. Today it’s restoring them – a change that reflects a profound shift in human thinking.
More homes are burning in wildfires in nearly every Western state. The reason? Humans.
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Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Denver; Institute for Humane Studies
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Associate Professor of Sociology; Co-Founder, Center for Environmental Justice at CSU, Colorado State University
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Teaching Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Denver
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Associate Professor of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Snow Hydrology, Colorado State University
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Associate Professor of Practice in Supply Chain Management, University of Denver
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Assistant Professor in the Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Colorado State University
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Associate Professor of Animal Sciences, Colorado State University
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Assistant Professor of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Assistant Professor of Practice, University of Denver
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Director of the Earth Lab Analytics Hub, University of Colorado Boulder
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Colorado State University
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Regents Professor Emeritus and Morris K. Udall Professor of Law & Public Policy Emeritus, University of Arizona
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Assistant Professor of Business, Indiana University
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Associate Professor of Geography and Director, Earth Lab, University of Colorado Boulder