Tropic of Colorado

Digital Earth: Explore the Rocky Mountain West

Get a bird's eye-view of our ever-changing Rocky Mountain forests and see how bark beetles, water conditions, climate change, and management practices are affecting the balance of these ecosystems.

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The Energy Equation

In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Whitey Hagadorn looks at oil and wind and how those sources fit into the ever changing energy equation.

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July 6, 2010
Did you know that 50 million years ago Colorado and Wyoming were a tropical rainforest? Since then, the climate has changed dramatically, but for reasons that can be explained in nature. In this Science Bite, Museum scientists Ian Miller and Richard Stucky show how studying the past can help us figure out how humans may be changing the future of our planet.