By Cara Buckley
The New York Times
One ship was pulled across the sea with the help of an enormous sail that looked as if it belonged to a kite-surfing giant. Another navigated the oceans between China and Brazil this summer with steel and composi...
COLD WAR LEGACY
Closed military bases remain a toxic menace
By Ralph Vartabedian
The New York Times
MONTEREY, Calif.>> For much of the 20th century, Fort Ord was one of the largest light infantry training bases in the country, a place where more t...
Advocates to pursue ballot initiative on management of mountain lions, bobcats
By Elise Schmelzer
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Three years after a successful ballot initiative push to reintroduce wolves, wildlife advocates will try again to put decisions about managing Colorado’s carnivores in the h...
By Noelle Phillips
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Environmentalists and public officials who monitor Suncor Energy’s oil refinery in Commerce City are fuming over a recent announcement that the company will contribute money toward a voucher program to help people buy electric lawnmowers after it sold di...
By Martin Heinrich
Guest Commentary
Last month, I joined President Joe Biden at a new wind tower manufacturing plant that just opened in Belén, New Mexico.
The opening of this $55 million factory will create 250 advanced manufacturing careers for New Mexicans. These are the types of high-quality ...
By Robert Tann
Summit Daily
Compared to other mountain resort communities, Summit County ranks among the highest for per-person greenhouse gas emissions, according to an analysis by the High Country Conservation Center, a county-based nonprofit.
During Tuesday’s Summit Board of County Commissione...
By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher
The Associated Press
HONOLULU>> Soon after one of Maui’s Japanese Buddhist temples, the Lahaina Hongwanji Mission, burned in the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, its resident minister was desperate to go back and see what remained.
Six weeks later, ...
By Isabella O’Malley
The Associated Press
The Energy Department is announcing a $325 million investment in new battery types that can help turn solar and wind energy into 24-hour power it said Friday morning.
The funds will be distributed among 15 projects in 17 states and...
INCREASING THREATS
AI tech is being used to battle wildfires
By Kelvin Chan
The Associated Press
LONDON>> Wildfires fueled by climate change have ravaged communities from Maui to the Mediterranean this summer, killing many people, exhausting firefighters and fueling demand for new solution...
SUMMER OF RECORDS
By Delger Erdenesanaa
The New York Times
Temperature records continue to topple. Last month was the planet’s warmest August in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 174-year record, agency officials said Thursday. The global surface temperature for the mont...
By Maddie Burakoff
The Associated Press
NEW YORK>> Fall is in the air — officially.
The equinox arrives on Saturday, marking the start of the fall season for the Northern Hemisphere.
But what does that actually mean? Here’s what to know about how we split up the year using the Earth’s orbi...
By Coral Davenport
The New York Times
A directive issued Thursday by the Biden administration would, for the first time, have federal agencies consider the economic damage caused by climate change when deciding what kinds of vehicles, equipment and goods to buy.
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By Delger Erdenesanaa
The New York Times
Temperature records continue to topple. Last month was the planet’s warmest August in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 174-year record, agency officials said Thursday. The global surface temper...
  
By Delger Erdenesanaa and Noah Weiland
The New York Times
On the heels of an exceptionally fiery and smoky summer, two new reports released Wednesday confirmed what many Americans have been already seeing and breathing.
Smoke from increasingly frequent and...
By Ryan Spencer
Summit Daily
The Tuesday after Labor Day, a few volunteers worked as busily as beavers, wading knee deep into dammed waters along North Tenmile Creek in Frisco.
A chain saw, three corrugated plastic pipes, wire and rebar lay around the picnic table where Alton Penz and Frank Ricci...
New research reveals that even a “mid-transition” to electrified transportation could have outsized health and economic benefits for Black and Latino residents.
By Aydali Campa
September 20, 2023
Electrifying just 30 percent of all light- and heavy-duty vehicles in the lower Great Lakes region co...
A small city ended its bus service to find out
By Jeff McMurray
The Associated Press
When a small city abruptly parked all its buses to launch a publicly subsidized van service offering $1.50 trips anywhere in town, only one of its bus drivers — a big-city transplant — went along for the ride.
M...
By Coral Davenport
The New York Times
If President Joe Biden wins a second term, his climate policies would take aim at steel and cement plants, factories and oil refineries — heavily polluting industries that have never before had to rein in their heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
New controls on ...
Utility says it’s working with installers, governments to meet solar power demand
By Judith Kohler
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People who lost their homes in the 2021 Marshall fire, Colorado’s costliest at $2 billion in property damage, have spent much time going back and forth with insurance ...
By Nicholas Kristof
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World leaders are gathering this week at the United Nations and proclaim their passion for ending poverty and hunger around the globe. This week, approximately 90,000 children under the age of 5 will die, mostly of preventable causes.
As leaders discus...
