January/February 2014

2014 January/February

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Colorado's fracking boom has led to natural gas wells everywhere, like this one next to the Red Hawk Elementary School in the Weld County town of Erie.
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Fractured

Colorado is split. Some want to ban fracking, some want to frack more.

By Natalya Savka

March 5, 2014

Nikhil Arora (left) and Alejandro Velez of Back to the Roots
Green Biz

A Fishy Start-Up

By Avital Andrews

March 6, 2014

Trevor Thomas and Tennille
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Second Sight

Trevor Thomas went blind at age 36. He responded by hiking 18,000 miles.

By Jake Abrahamson

March 5, 2014

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To the Mountaintop

A team of black climbers blazes a new kind of trail on Mt. Denali

By Brittany Johnson

March 3, 2014

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Critter

Tasseled Wobbegong

If Willie Nelson were a tropical shark

By Paul Rauber

March 12, 2014