As many as 200,000 birds are estimated to have migrated across Summit County overnight some days this month. Dark skies will help the birds on their journey.
KUNC’s In The NoCo is a daily window to the communities along the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
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You may have heard of a recent trend in yard care: No-Mow May. The idea is to support pollinators like bees and butterflies by letting dandelions and clover grow through the month. But is it a good idea for our region? We get answers from a plant expert at CSU, today on In The NoCo.
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In the early 1900s, the community of Dearfield was Colorado’s largest Black homesteading site. It thrived for many years, until the Dust Bowl and the Depression pushed residents out. UNC scholar George Junne explains why it’s important to reflect on the community today.
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These days, a trip on the restored Fort Collins trolley is a cherished part of a summer weekend. But the city was once home to a network of trolleys that served as public transportation. We hopped on board to learn some of the trolley's fascinating and sometimes quirky history.
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One person is dead and another has been hospitalized after a vehicle and a tanker truck crashed on Colorado's main east-west highway. The crash Thursday on Interstate 70 near Morrison created a fireball and sent up a huge plume of black smoke. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office says a person in a vehicle died and the truck driver has been hospitalized.
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The Colorado Air Pollution Control Division has missed its EPA deadline to rewrite permits for a Weld County oil and gas complex. A non-profit environmental group is threatening to sue the agency as a result. It contends the EPA and state regulators have failed to act quickly on the issue. The Colorado Sun editor David Krause joined KUNC's Michael Lyle, Jr. to get more on this story.
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Artificial Intelligence has been used to edit photos, enhance home appliances and more. Now it’s being widely introduced in the classroom. Some are skeptical, but others see promise.
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A second teen has pleaded guilty in the death of a 20-year-old driver who was hit in the head by a rock that crashed through her windshield in suburban Denver last year.
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In annual reports sent to Dark Sky International, Utah’s national and state parks list light pollution from development and tourism as the main threat to maintaining their certification.
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A recent incident involving a Lift Lines comic and a parking loophole in Teton Village illustrates an underlying friction in ski towns throughout the Mountain West.
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The data suggests the West is less impacted by the phenomenon than other regions, but a utility expert suggests the impact could still be quite significant.
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The $135 million will go towards building and maintaining residential solar installations on a number of reservations.
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The Biden administration has put out a beta version of what it calls the American Conservation and Stewardship Atlas, a massive mapping project that seeks to visualize conservation efforts across the country. It also is intended to show progress toward the administration’s goal of conserving or restoring 30% of American territory by 2030.
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