Josh Schlossberg

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Chronic Wasting Disease is decimating deer, elk, and moose populations across the US. But help to curb the spread of this incurable brain condition could come in the unlikely shape of the cervids greatest predator - the mountain lion.

-Interview by Josh Schlossberg

Denver Moon, P.I., is on the case in Mars City as she investigates a rash of violent crimes tied to “red fever” — a disease that transforms its victims into gory predators — in a new transmedia sci-fi venture from Erie-based Hex Publishers, complete with a novella, three comic books, a soundtrack and PlayStation dynamic themes.

- by Josh Schlossberg

If the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has its way, the director of Jefferson County Public Health, a nuclear forensics researcher, an emeritus professor of biology, a meteorologist and a toxicology expert will be barred from testifying at a July 17 hearing in the U.S. District Court in Denver over the future of Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge — 5,237 acres of grasslands surrounding the former nuclear weapons facility and Superfund site 10 miles south of Boulder.

- by Josh Schlossberg

EPA stated that the purpose of the policy is to ensure that biomass “plays a key role in addressing the energy needs of the U.S., furthering U.S. energy dominance, in an environmentally and economically beneficial way.”

- by Josh Schlossberg

The manufacture of nuclear weapon triggers at the Rocky Flats Plant from 1952-1989 dispersed varying levels of radioactive plutonium, uranium and other toxic chemicals into the soil and groundwater. Some of those contaminants have since spread onto the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge — 4,883 acres of open space surrounding the former facility site, which sits 10 miles south of Boulder.

- by Josh Schlossberg

A new study out of the University of Colorado Boulder stresses how important it is for homeowners to take such measures to adapt to wildfires, which, thanks to a changing climate, are burning earlier, more often and bigger than ever before.

- by Josh Schlossberg

A Colorado State University scientist is investigating the role wild horses may play in slowing the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), a 100 percent fatal and contagious brain-destroying infection, ravaging the country’s deer and elk herds.

- by Josh Schlossberg

On March 8, International Women’s Day, some of these resources were Boulder-area web and software developers, who gathered together for Refugee Hack Night to create programs for Humanwire and other NGOs addressing the mounting refugee crisis.

- by Josh Schlossberg

The City of Broomfield and the Woman Creek Reservoir Authority (WCRA), a political subdivision and public corporation of the State of Colorado, are opposed to a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) plan to breach a dam on a pond collecting surface water flowing from Rocky Flats, the former nuclear weapons facility site 10 miles south of Boulder.

- by Josh Schlossberg

After decades of deliberation the final revision of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (USFWS) Mexican Wolf Recovery Plan (the Plan) was released at the end of November, but former USFWS officials tell EnviroNews it strays far from scientists’ minimum recommendations for recovery of the gray wolf subspecies.

- by Josh Schlossberg

On November 13, Denver City Council unanimously approved modifications to the Merchant Guard License — required of all private security guards, including bouncers — that would implement training as a condition of employment.

- by Josh Schlossberg

The United States District Court in Arizona struck down a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (the Service/USFWS) management rule for the endangered Mexican grey wolf (Canis lupus baileyi), finding that it “provides only for short-term survival of the species and fails to further the long-term recovery of the Mexican wolf in the wild.”

- by Josh Schlossberg

Curated by local artist Jeff Gipe, the installation “uses art and oral history to explore the past, present and future of this contentious site,” which from 1951 to 1989 manufactured an estimated 70,000 plutonium “triggers” for nearly all of the nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal.

- by Josh Schlossberg

You’ve probably never seen a Canada lynx (Lynx Canadensis) in the wild. And if the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) pulls off its plan to remove Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for the elusive wildcat, conservationists say you might never get the chance.

- by Josh Schlossberg

Conservationists are challenging a logging proposal that would clear-cut 1,300 acres in the White River National Forest northeast of Aspen, including endangered Canada lynx habitat and units adjacent to the protected Woods Lake Roadless Area.