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May 1, 2013--Solar-powered nanofilters pump in antibiotics to clean contaminated water (Science Daily)

Using the same devious mechanism that enables some bacteria to shrug off powerful antibiotics, scientists have developed solar-powered nanofilters that remove antibiotics from the water in lakes and rivers twice as efficiently as the best existing technology. Their report appears in ACS' journal Nano Letters.


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May 1, 2013--Earth's greenhouse gas levels approach 400-ppm milestone (Los Angeles Times)

The ratio of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere is flirting with 400 parts per million, a level last seen about 2.5 million to 5 million years ago, according to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. The Institution this week launched a daily Keeling curve update, showing the saw-toothed upward diagonal of rising carbon dioxide levels since the late 1950s.


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April 30, 2013--No Electra Lake summer recreation (Durango Herald)

Electra Lake will be closed to recreation this summer to allow Xcel Energy to repair the 30-year-old dam. “The public will not have access to recreation from late May into the late fall,” company spokesman Mark Stutz said Monday.


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April 29, 2013--A possible new way to manage water and snow in thirsty California (Washington Post)

Like a pitcher taking the mound on opening day, Frank Gehrke gets the spotlight in California every early April.


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April 27, 2013--Colorado: Hermosa Creek conservation bill gets a bipartisan introduction in Congress (Summit Voice)

Colorado lawmakers in Washington, D.C. are reaching across party lines to try and protect more than 100,000 acres of the Hermosa Creek watershed north of Durango. U.S. Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Rep.


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