Colorado Local Science Engagement Network Science Note RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post By now you may have seen the infamous “brown cloud” that sits over the Front Range during Colorado’s hot and sunny summer months- a visible reminder of the severity of Colorado’s poor air quality. Recently, Denver – the largest Front Range city – earned the notorious distinction of being the 7th worst city in the US for air quality. In fact, many counties throughout the front range have long failed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ozone standards. What is going on here? Let’s get into the details of ozone, nonattainment…

Colorado Local Science Engagement Network Science Note When we think of regulation of the natural world we think of policy that limits who has access to which resources and how much they are allowed to alter that land, right?That’s where rights of nature organizations are coming in, changing the way we look at land regulation and perhaps taking the term “natural rights” literally.  A broad look at the rights of natureIn May 1992, the United Nations Environment Programme Ad Hoc Working Group of Experts on Biological Diversity convened in Nairobi, Kenya for the Conference for the Adoption of the Convention on…