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The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE>> Some Republican members of Congress voiced opposition Thursday to the Biden administration’s recent move to withdraw hundreds of square miles of federal land in New Mexico from oil and gas d...
A warming Earth steamed to its hottest June on record, smashing the old global mark by nearly a quarter of a degree, with global oceans setting temperature records for the third straight month, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday.
June’s 61.79 degrees global ...
By Julie McCluskie
Guest Commentary
We’ve reached the crisis point for the Colorado River and the future of the American Southwest. We need creative solutions for living with a river that contains less water yet has more demands for its limited supplies. As a resident of the high country, I know w...
  
ENVIRONMENT

By Hiroko Tabuchi
The New York Times
Natural gas, long seen as a cleaner alternative to coal and an important tool in the fight to slow global warming, can be just as harmful to the climate, a new study has concluded, unless companies can al...
Cooperative teams up with Ameresco to add 78.3 megawatts of storage
By Aldo Svaldi
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Brighton-based United Power, the state’s largest electric cooperative, and Ameresco, a leading cleantech firm, are teaming up to install Colorado’s largest battery storage project to date.
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ENVIRONMENT

By Cara Buckley
The New York Times
Xiulin Ruan, a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, didn’t set out to make it into the Guinness World Records when he began trying to make a new type of paint. He had a loftier goal: to cool down buildings without torching the...
By Monika Pronczuk and Catrin Einhorn
The New York Times
European lawmakers, after an unexpectedly bitter political battle, approved a bill Wednesday that would require European Union countries to restore 20% of all degraded nature areas within their borders on land and at sea.
The measur...
By Linda Qiu
The New York Times
WASHINGTON>> The Agriculture Department said Wednesday that it would establish a monitoring and data collection network to measure greenhouse gas emissions and determine how much carbon can be captured using certain farming practices.
The network, using $300 ...
Gas stoves release benzene throughout home,
By Noelle Phillips
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Cooking with a gas stove in your kitchen can emit as much benzene into a home as second-hand tobacco smoke, depending on ventilation and the size of the house, according to new research from Stanford Unive...
By Melina Walling
The Associated Press
Mily Trevino-Sauceda was 9 when her mother fell as she worked to move irrigation pipes along rows of potato and alfalfa on an Idaho farm. Mily’s 10-year-old brother splashed water over their mother’s face and body while her children looked on, scared and cryi...
By Mike Ives
The New York Times
For years, meals at the summer sun dance ceremonies on the Eastern Shoshone Tribe’s lands in Wyoming were missing something that was once a staple of the sacred rituals.
There was no presence of homegrown bison, an animal central to the spiritual customs and belief...
By Emily Anthes
The New York Times
The United States is home to an enormous array of animal industries — including industrial agriculture, fur farming and the exotic pet trade — that pose a significant risk of creating infectious disease outbreaks in humans, according to a new report by experts at...
Increased moisture this year does not fix state’s water woes
By Elise Schmelzer
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Colorado is drought-free for the first time since 2019 — a stark change from a year ago, when 98% of the state was under drought conditions.
A winter filled with heavy snow and a cooler, wet...
  
ZAMBIA

By Ruth Maclean and Collins Chilumba Sampa
The New York Times
The hunter heard the helicopter coming. He grabbed his AK-47, he said, and jumped behind a tree. He was on an illegal elephant hunt with a group of men inside North Luangwa National P...
By Noelle Phillips
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Federal officials this month fined Suncor Energy more than $15,000 for a safety violation that led two employees to be injured in a December fire at the company’s Commerce City oil refinery.
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued ...
By David Koenig
The Associated Press
When it comes to flying, going green may cost you more. And it’s going to take a while for the strategy to take off.
Sustainability was a hot topic last week at the Paris Air Show, the world’s largest event for the aviation industry, which faces pressure to re...
Upcycling turns would-be trash into ice cream
By Haven Daley
The Associated Press
LOS GATOS, Calif.>> At Tyler Malek’s ice cream parlors, one cook’s trash is another chef’s frosty treat.
The head ice cream maker at the Portland, Ore.-based Salt & Straw uses the whey leftover from yogu...
By Eric Asimov
The New York Times
Robert Mondavi paved the way for California’s Napa Valley to take a place among the leading wine regions of the world and raised the bar for all American producers.
By the force of his charismatic personality, Mondavi, a hard-driving visionary who established the...
By Michael Phillis and Sam Metz
The Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY>> On some parts of the Navajo Nation, where about one-third of the people lack reliable access to clean water, people have to drive for miles on red dirt roads to lug water home. Others rely on unregulated wells or water del...
  
By J. David Goodman
The New York Times
Strafed by powerful storms and superheated by a dome of hot air, Texas has been enduring a dangerous early heat wave this week that has broken temperature records and strained the state’s independent power grid.
But t...
