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Michael Booth

Michael Booth is The Sun’s environment writer, and co-author of The Sun’s weekly climate and health newsletter The Temperature. He and John Ingold host the weekly SunUp podcast on The Temperature topics every Thursday.

He is co-author with Jennifer Brown of the Colorado Book Award-winning food safety investigation “Eating Dangerously.†Booth was part of teams that won two Pulitzer Prizes for breaking news. He also writes frequently about inexplicable obsessions that include tamarisk, black-footed ferrets and tire fires. Booth also serves as the underpaid driver for four children, and plans to eventually hike every inch of Colorado.

Job title: Environment reporter

Topic expertise: Environment, climate, health

Location: Denver

Newsletter: The Temperature, a dive into climate and health topics and put a special emphasis on where they intersect

Language(s) in addition to English: Is northern Minnesota English an option?

Education: Macalester College

Honors & Awards: Member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for Breaking News; Top of the Rockies beat reporting; National Education Writers Feature Writing; Colorado Book Award for Nonfiction

Professional membership(s): Society of Environmental Journalists

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Email: booth@coloradosun.com
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Posted inEnvironment

Photos: Deconstructing “forever chemicals†at a Colorado military base

by Michael Booth and Mike Sweeney 3:28 AM MDT on Jul 10, 20257:25 AM MDT on Jul 10, 2025
Workers wearing protective suits carry large blue containers from a boat to shore in a snowy, muddy landscape.
Posted inEnvironment

Zebra mussel larvae spreading fast in Colorado River and nearby lakes on Western Slope 

by Michael Booth 5:33 PM MDT on Jul 9, 202511:33 AM MDT on Jul 10, 2025
Posted inThe Temperature

Open spaces and safe spaces, and the gaps in between 

by Michael Booth 10:54 AM MDT on Jul 9, 202510:54 AM MDT on Jul 9, 2025
Posted inOutdoors

Moraine Park campground in Rocky Mountain National Park reopening for summer reservations 

by Michael Booth 4:05 AM MDT on Jul 8, 20258:41 AM MDT on Jul 8, 2025
Posted inWater

Thornton’s pipeline permit through Larimer County approved by state judge 

by Michael Booth 1:58 PM MDT on Jul 7, 20251:59 PM MDT on Jul 7, 2025
Posted inEnvironment

How Denver’s trash, recycling and compost system works: They’d rather teach you than fine you

by Michael Booth 4:08 AM MDT on Jul 5, 202510:06 AM MDT on Jul 10, 2025
Posted inNews

Body of 66-year-old Fort Collins hiker recovered at Chasm Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park

by Michael Booth 9:46 AM MDT on Jul 4, 20257:14 AM MDT on Jul 5, 2025
Posted inNewsletters

Will they take my cart away if I’ve been a single-stream scofflaw?  

by Michael Booth 10:08 AM MDT on Jul 2, 202511:11 AM MDT on Jul 2, 2025
Posted inEnvironment

Latest U.S. budget bill even worse for Colorado clean energy despite pushback, advocates say

by Michael Booth 4:04 AM MDT on Jun 30, 20253:58 PM MDT on Jun 30, 2025
A silhouette of a person's head in profile, filled with an image of mountains and misty forest, against a plain beige background.
Posted inPolitics and Government

Selling off Colorado: Tech bros and conservatives have grand plans for federal lands

by Michael Booth, Nancy Lofholm, Jason Blevins and Tracy Ross 3:30 AM MDT on Jun 29, 20252:10 PM MDT on Jun 29, 2025

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