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Climate, avalanches and … cattle genetics?
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By Summit Voice
SUMMIT COUNTY — Global warming stayed at the top of the charts, but just barely. By late Sunday night, a science story on the genetic origins of domestic cattle was within a few page views and steadily climbing, thanks to a link from Fark.com. Stories on a pair of unfortunate backcountry skier deaths during the weekend, and coverage of the Lower North Fork Fire in Jefferson County rounded out this week’s most-viewed list. Click the headlines to read the stories and pass them along on your own favorite network with the share buttons at the end of each story.
- Study finds links between global warming, extreme weather 1,443 views
- Study traces genetic origins of cattle 1,411 views
- Colorado: Backcountry skier dies on Buffalo Mountain 1,392 views
- Colorado: Backcountry skier dies in San Juan avalanche 721 views
- Lower North Fork Fire 70 percent contained 660 views
- Colorado: Two dead in I-70 accident near Frisco 582 views
- Colorado: Front Range wildfires claim one life 542 views
- Colorado: New evacuations possible at Lower North Fork Fire 537 views
A few more of the top stories:
- Study says toxic levels of PCBs decreasing in polar bears
- WMO says global warming accelerated in past decade
- Grants to boost preservation of WWII confinement camps
- Corals damaged by Deepwater Horizon oil spill
- Climate: West Antarctic ice sheet may be disintegrating
- EPA proposes carbon pollution limits for power plants
- Grim outlook for dolphins exposed to BP oil in Gulf
- IPCC report suggests global warming will lead to more frequent extreme weather, urges preparedness
- Biodiversity: Key European butterfly species in decline
- ‘Startling’ increase in earthquakes linked with oil and gas drilling
State & Local headlines
- Colorado: Headed for drought?
- Colorado: Firefighters battle wildfire near Keystone
- Udall: Wilderness is a ‘great economic engine’
- Beetle-killed trees not a factor in Lower North Fork Fire
- Colorado: Hickenlooper suspends prescribed fires
- Colorado: Heading for the driest March on record
- Coral reefs in Caribbean damaged by development and deforestation long before feeling heat of global warming
Photos:
- Morning photo: Colorful!
- Morning photo: Roadside attractions
- Morning photo: A day in the life …
- Morning photo: Dawn
- Morning photo: Just another sunset …
Filed under: climate and weather, Colorado, global warming Tagged: | backcountry skiing, Colorado news, Environment, Summit County Colorado
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