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College football hype can be lost in translation for international students
If you're not from the US, football and its traditions can be bewildering. To help their international students, many universities now offer a crash course in the rules, scoring and, of course, fight songs. Shannon Young reports from football-crazed Boulder, Colorado, that the classes aren't just to help international students understand football but American culture.
Colorado law students gain ‘powerful’ lessons providing free legal services to immigrants
Colorado's catastrophic winter firestorm may be a sign of more to come
Colorado joins handful of states that give financial aid to undocumented college students
Wildfire shuts down major US transportation corridor, signaling yet more climate disruption
A message for dog owners enjoying the great outdoors: Leave no poop behind
Most dog owners don’t think to pick up after their pets when out hiking in the backcountry, assuming it’s no big deal. But all that dog poop adds up to potential harm by introducing foreign bacteria and nutrients to forests, fields and streams.
Engineers compete to detect methane leaks, a powerful climate pollutant
Leaks of methane from gas and oil wells are a major source of climate pollution but it's tough to detect the odorless and colorless gas. Now, a new competition is spurring inventors to come up with cheaper and more effective methane detectors. The World's Jason Margolis profiles two of the inventors.
Fed up with high rates, a Colorado city considers ditching its utility and relying on the sun
Residents in Pueblo, Colorado are engaged in a fight with their utility company, tired of paying among the highest electricity rates in the state. The city is looking into becoming its own utility — one powered by 100 percent renewable energy — a noble goal to lower rates and combat climate change.
Europeans are embracing American craft beer. So, why are exports trailing off?
In recent years, more and more overseas beer drinkers were trying out the bold, often hoppy experiments coming from America's craft brewers. Exports of US craft beers boomed. But now, exports are cooling off. We visit the New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado, the nation’s fourth-largest craft brewer, to learn about the challenges becoming a global player.
Despite dozens of recent flu deaths among US children, vaccination skeptics remain — and their numbers have grown
Vaccinations have been around for more than a century. So why is the vaccination rate so low in the United States?
Wages for American workers are ticking upward, but the US remains one of the world’s most inequitable nations
The American economy is strong by most metrics. But income inequality remains a huge concern: In some cases, a CEO can make a workers' annual income in a single day.
A Republican congressman walks the tricky middle ground on immigration reform
Colorado Republican Congressman Mike Coffman represents one of the most diverse districts in the US. He's become a leading moderate voice on immigration. But is he doing enough for his constituents?
Forest fire surge may be blamed more by human touch than changing climates
As forest fires become more common — in California, in particular — it has been easy to point to climate change and severe drought conditions as the main reasons. Researchers, though, say that the human element may play just as an important role to the troubling trend.
The little-known link between Princess Leia’s iconic hairstyle and the Mexican Revolution
Real-life revolutionary women inspired those famous coiled buns.
What’s it like to be the new kid AND a refugee?
Small town and suburban public schools become welcome centers as more immigrants are moving outside major metropolitan areas.