Environment / Carah Aviva Wertheimer

National Geographic • 29th April 2019

How can coffee plantations be more bird-friendly?

Their landmark 12-year study of 57,255 individually banded birds representing 265 species at 19 Costa Rican sites sheds new light on how tropical birds, a key indicator of ecosystem health, are faring across a patchwork of habitats ...

The Daily Beast • 11th November 2017

Oceans Might Become More Seltzer-Like in the Future

“I have to admit, we’re just scratching the surface here,” Ulf Riebesell told The Daily Beast recently. He’s talking about how only now, decades after climate change was recognized as an impending crisis, we’re figuring out how the extreme temperatures facing Earth will affect the water covering 71 percent ...

Boulder Daily Camera • 16th August 2017

Native seed collectors help revegetate land in Boulder County

Looking for a new way to reduce stress while helping the environment and experiencing a sense of community? According to volunteers with the Boulder-based Wildlands Restoration Volunteers, native seed collecting — harvesting seed by hand from local native plants ...

Boulder Daily Camera • 16th July 2016

Boulder County boosts push to put anti-fracking measures on ballot

Volunteers and paid workers are gathering signatures as fast as they can in Boulder County and across the state, in a grassroots effort to get two anti-fracking state constitutional amendments on the November ballot. “Yes for Safety & Health Over Fracking,” the issues committee arm ...

Boulder Daily Camera • 8th June 2016

Anti-fracking protesters disrupt Hickenlooper’s book event in Boulder

A book talk by Gov. John Hickenlooper at the First Congregational Church in Boulder turned unexpectedly chaotic Wednesday night when it was disrupted by anti-fracking protesters from a group called the Colorado Community Rights Network. The Colorado governor was forced to abandon his ...

Boulder Daily Camera • 12th March 2016

CU-Boulder research unearths ancient high-Arctic bird

Fifty million years ago, Gastornis, a 6-foot tall flightless bird inhabiting what is now Colorado and Wyoming, also lived in the Canadian high Arctic, according to Jaelyn Eberle, associate professor of geological sciences ...

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