While many birds fly south for the winter, others flock to Colorado

As the new year begins, many of us are thinking about fresh starts: new routines, new goals, and maybe even new ways of showing up for our families. 

the pine beetle dies only when the temperature drops below zero for two weeks but it hasn’t gotten this cold

This month: the best Jupiter viewing of the year; why planets go high when the sun goes low; and a new lunar lander shoots for the moon.

New vistas offer new vitality at the end of a challenging year

and so I didn’t win the poet laureate position for the town of Nederland but my poems

Well, here we are once again, bidding farewell to one year and preparing to enter the next!

driving to the hardware store I see the southernmost city limit sign torn off its poles

When talking about “lockdown defenders” in Colorado Broncos history, you may think immediately of players like Von Miller, Champ Bailey, Patrick Surtain II, Chris Harris Jr., or Randy Gradishar, and Karl Mecklenburg for the older generations.

The Winter Solstice on December 21 leads us into one of the four great turning points of the year. Capricorn guides us into the deepest darkest nights and then reintroduces the light.

and then there you are out of nowhere out of everywhere

Mountain chickadees can locate food stashes with astonishing accuracy

Marith Reheis may have retired from her work as a geologist 13 years ago, but she's still interested and active in the field.

Words of gratitude for the week of December 4, 2025

Skip the telescope and opt for binoculars, recommends Backyard Astronomer Frank Sanders

in the cultures that were killed to make way for strip malls

As autumn arrives in Colorado, the thunderous head-butts of Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep echo through Waterton Canyon, signaling the dramatic rutting season.

I wake up a little late and get ready for the day in a bit of a rush

Mountain-Ear columnist Omayra Acevedo says goodbye

This Sagittarius season, purge your past emotional residue