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District reports 1 in 6 students opted out of vaccines Play Video
April 30, 2013 7:46 PM
COLORADO SPRINGS - Immunization records shows one in six students in Academy District 20 opted out of at least one of their scheduled vaccines this school year. The district's exemption rate increased from 11 percent, or roughly one in nine students, the previous year. While official immunization rates are... more » -
Mercury filters installed at many dentist offices
May 16, 2012 1:34 PM
If you have fillings in your teeth, you have a form of mercury in your mouth. At the dentist office that mercury can wash down the drain and out into the environment, which is a major pollution hazard. Those at Pueblo's Health Department have been working for the past two... more » -
NASA spacecraft circling Mercury - a first
March 17, 2011 8:10 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) For the first time, Earth has a regular orbiting eye-in-the-sky spying on the solar system's smallest and strangest planet, Mercury. NASA's spacecraft called Messenger successfully veered into a pinpoint orbit Thursday night after a 6 1/2-year trip and 4.9 billion miles and tricky maneuvering to fend off... more » -
End of the road for Ford's Mercury vehicles
June 2, 2010 7:41 PM
It's been predicted for years, now Ford confirms it is killing off its Mercury division. The Mercury brand has survived for 72-years. During a conference call to dealers, Ford executives said that winding down Mercury will allow the automaker to focus more attention on its mainstream Ford vehicles and especially... more » -
Watch the sky for Mercury
March 29, 2010 2:01 PM
Mercury, the solar system's most elusive planet, will be easier to see for the next two weeks. Astronomers say that Mercury and Venus will appear unusually close together between now and April 10. Because Venus is one of the brightest objects in the night sky it can be used... more » -
No fishing in Juniata Reservoir due to mercury
February 22, 2010 11:35 AM
A reservoir that provides drinking water for Grand Junction is closed for fishing because smallmouth bass there have tested positive for mercury contamination. Steve Gunderson, director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's water quality division, says the mercury levels in Juniata Reservoir are extremely low, but mercury... more » -
Planet hunters, other projects bring fame to CU
January 12, 2010 1:31 PM
Aerospace engineering students at the University of Colorado are hunting for new planets. Geology students are studying the loss of ice in the Arctic. Over in the physics department, students are involved with the Large Hadron Collider. These are three of seven projects that landed CU-Boulder in... more » -
CU-Boulder scientists prepare for Mercury fly-by
September 28, 2009 5:24 PM
NASA's Messenegr spacecraft, toting an $8.7 million University of Colorado at Boulder instrument, will make its third and final fly-by of Mercury Tuesday. The spacecraft will zip within 142 miles of the planet's surface at more than 100,000 mph, taking high-resolution color images of the surface terrain. The... more » -
Colorado lawmakers urge DOE to scrap mercury dump
September 26, 2009 8:58 AM
Three members of Colorado's congressional delegation have told Energy Secretary Steven Chu that storing the nation's excess mercury in western Colorado is "unreasonable" considering the potential threats to public health and environment. Colorado Sens. Mark Udall and Mike Bennet and Congressman John Salazar, all Democrats, said Friday that the potential... more » -
Mercury leaking at closed California mine sites
September 18, 2009 12:09 PM
Abandoned mercury mines throughout central California's rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state's major waterways, rendering fish unsafe to eat and risking the health of at least 100,000 impoverished people. But an Associated Press investigation found that the federal government has tried to clean up fewer than a dozen... more » -
Western governors urge caution on mercury sites
August 26, 2009 11:31 AM
Western governors are concerned that five of seven states being considered as the storage site for the nation's excess mercury are in the West. One of those states is Colorado. The Denver-based Western Governors' Association sent a letter Monday to the Department of Energy requesting an assessment of the... more »
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