Digging for Dust Data
If you’ve ventured out on a hot day wearing dark clothing you know that within a short time you're soaked with sweat. Similarly, when a blanket of dust settles on snow, it acts the same way - the snow...
View ArticleCoal Mines Provide Enticing Green Energy Source
One local company is already taking advantage of methane capture at coal mines. The Aspen Skiing Company last year, invested in a project that generates energy from methane at a mine near Paonia....
View ArticleBest of the Best Nordic Skiers May Be at Higher Risk for Heartbeat...
The scientific community agrees: exercise does a body good. When comparing a sedentary lifestyle spent on the couch versus being an active cross-country skier, the recommendation from doctors is a no...
View ArticleWhat Physics Teaches Us About Cells
Physics is often introduced to young minds by teaching them to calculate the trajectory of a baseball or the time it took the apple to drop from the tree and bonk Newton on the head. But maybe kids...
View ArticleTracking Air Quality in the Roaring Fork Valley
The US Supreme Court is in the news for decisions on same sex marriage and voting rights... but the highest court in the land is also planning to look at air pollution. At issue is who's to blame when...
View ArticleStaring at the Sun, Looking for Answers and Awe
The Aspen Ideas Fest kicked off its second day of heady talks and colloquia on Thursday. Attendees and speakers from all over gathered to discuss the most pressing issues of culture, media, and foreign...
View ArticleStudy Gives "Tree of Life" New Meaning
A sudden loss in the number of trees around you may slightly increase your chances for death. That's what a study from the US Forest Service published earlier this year suggests. Scientists found that...
View ArticleRaptors Descend Upon Aspen, Put On A Show
In 1982, a baby golden eagle crashed on the backside of Aspen Mountain. The eagle was rehabilitated at the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, or ACES, where it has called home ever since....
View ArticleWildfires Contribute More to Atmospheric Warming, New Study Shows
As the country recovers from the worst wildland firefighting accident in years, there’s more attention on fire crews and the homes they’re trying to protect. But an often invisible result of wildfire...
View ArticleThe Marmots of RMBL
A colony of small mammals lives high above Crested Butte, just on the other side of West Maroon Pass from Aspen. And, for more than fifty years, the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory there has been...
View ArticleWhat Can Marmots Teach Us About Plastics?
At the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab in Gothic, just over the Maroon Bells from Aspen, a number of long-term field studies are pumping out reams of scientific data. In part two of our report on the...
View ArticleEarth #Photobombed Saturn Last Time. Today, its a #Selfie.
A billion miles from the Roaring Fork Valley, there’s a satellite orbiting Saturn. This afternoon, from that planet’s shadow, the NASA space probe will take a historic photograph of Earth. It’s the...
View ArticleSearch for Next "Startup Idol" at Brainstorm TECH
Entrepreneurs often have an easier time innovating than getting financial backing for their ideas. At the Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen this week, five startup companies got a shot at selling...
View ArticleGeoengineering: The Technological Fix to Climate Change?
You may have missed it, but last week national headlines read, “the CIA wants to control the weather.” Those headlines came on the heels of the media learning the CIA was funding a report on...
View ArticleStudy: River Forecasting in Rockies Needs Dusting
Snow in the Upper Colorado River Basin provides water for seven states. Farmers, factories, and families alike depend on this water, and a considerable amount of effort goes into understanding and...
View ArticleThe Water Delivery Man Problem
There is a problem that has vexed mathematicians for the greater part of the past century. Currently, there is no solution, and nobody knows for certain whether or not one exists. But cracking the code...
View ArticleClimate Change and Conflict and the Media
ROGER ADAMS, HOST: Global temperatures on are the rise, and scientists predict that that will make for more extreme weather events—things like higher temperature spikes, drought, and more intense...
View ArticleValley Roundup - August 9th, 2013
Feuding Foundations were in the news again this week as the Aspen Valley Hospital and its former fundraising arm trade shots.The Town of Basalt is preparing to move all the residents out of a mobile...
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