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...invasive species like the Rocky Mountain pine beetle, which has ravaged trees from Colorado to Montana, cause an estimated $120 billion worth of damage annually. "Invasives take over the habitat that native species need to survive and persist," says Frank Lowenstein, director of the Nature Conservancy's (TNC) Forest Health program and an expert on invasive species. "Eventually invasives just start replacing natives...
According to research done at University of Colorado at Boulder, exercise has been proven to prevent the development of depression anxiety, among other stress-related disorders. In the experiment, lab rats were exposed to a stressor, and those that had been allowed to exercise had increased levels of serotonin, the chemical that regulates mood, and were shown to be less anxious and stressed than the rats that were not allowed to exercise. Exercise, in a sense, is a natural antidepressant. Other scientific research has also shown that exercise increases the development and maintenance of brain cells, as well...
...frills cookery ("there's literally nothing to it"), but even he admits it's not exactly a feat of conservation. Nor do the mom-and-pop bistros of Portland, Ore., or Nashville have it any better: even customers who are as green as the Lorax want Scottish salmon and Colorado lamb on their table. And the chef, who's tried bland farmed salmon and the gnarly chops from the farm up the road, doesn't blame them at all. (See TIME's photo-essay "From Farm to Fork...
...tracks Grandin's early years as a child who had no speech and very little connection to the world at age four, through her painful humiliations in school, to her ultimate success in cowboy country. Claudia Wallis talked to Grandin, now 62 and a professor of animal science at Colorado State University, about the biopic...
...having to come together to decide such thorny issues as where Mom and Dad should live and where they should be buried. "It's like being put down with your siblings in the center of a nuclear reactor and being told, 'Figure it out,' " says University of Colorado geropsychologist Sara Honn Qualls...