CHEMICALS By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Toxic “forever chemicals” likely are used and discharged into water at 501 sites in Colorado and at least 29,900 across the United States, according to a new analysis by an environmental advocacy nonprofit.
The Environmental Working Group unveiled th...
Colorado has launched a four-year study of bald eagles to determine how the raptors have adapted to population growth along the metropolitan Front Range and identify planning measures that could ensure the bird’s future.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife says the study, involving biologists and v...
By Phil McKenna
April 6, 2021
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and leading appliance manufacturers have finally released key chemical refrigerant information that makes it easier for consumers to purchase climate-friendly refrigerators.
Until the past few years, it’s been virtually ...
By Hiroko Tabuchi
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For much of the past decade, oil companies engaged in drilling and fracking have been allowed to pump into the ground chemicals that, over time, can break down into toxic substances known as PFAS — a class of long-lasting compounds known to pose a threat ...
WASHINGTON (June 24, 2021) – “The Growing Climate Solutions Act recognizes the critical role that our working lands play in storing carbon and helping slow the effects of climate change,” said Melinda Cep, vice president of natural solutions and working lands at the National Audubon S...
**Este artículo se puede encontrar en español**Years of reduced inflows, along with drought and a warming climate, have caused the Sea to shrink, exposing dry lakebed -- or playa -- that sends clouds of irritating dust towards surrounding communities, causing increased rates of respir...
By Jack Ewing
The New York Times
Germany’s three largest carmakers colluded illegally to limit the effectiveness of their emissions technology, leading to higher levels of harmful diesel pollution, European antitrust authorities said Thursday.
Volkswagen and its Porsche and Audi divisions must pa...
By Henry Fountain
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The extraordinary heat wave that scorched the Pacific Northwest last week almost certainly would not have occurred without global warming, an international team of climate researchers said Wednesday.
Temperatures were so extreme — includi...
By Katie Langford
Daily Camera
BOULDER » A new study by University of Colorado and Boulder researchers found that ozone pollution in Antarctica has been rising over the past three decades, raising concerns that it could have a “profound impact” on the climate of the region.
Three scientis...
By Simon Romero
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PA’AUILO, HAWAII » The blaze first swept across parched fields of guinea grass. Then the flames got so close to Emma-Lei Gerrish’s house that she feared for her life.
“I was terrified it was going to jump the gulch,” said Gerrish, 26, whose Quake...
By Lucas Bessire
Guest Commentary
It is no secret that the Great Plains is facing a groundwater crisis. This is particularly obvious in eastern Colorado and western Kansas, where much of the Ogallala aquifer is in steep and well-documented decline.
Aquifer depletion is an important part of the st...
By Jim Robbins
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PALO ALTO, CALIF. » It could have toppled long ago.
For one thing, it’s a loner, miles from kin that thrive in far wetter climates. Its massive roots are sandwiched between a concrete wall and railroad tracks. It has weathered coal and diesel smoke from pas...
By Aubrey Rhoadarmer
Special to The Longmont Times-Call
More than half the structures in the United States are at risk from natural hazards — such as floods, earthquakes and wildfires — according to a new study published in the American Geophysical Union Journal Earth’s Future.
Led by a U...
Polystyrene products banned starting in ’24
By Alex Burness
The Denver Post
Gov. Jared Polis signed a new law Tuesday that’s meant to force Colorado businesses and consumers to reduce their use of single-use plastic and polystyrene products.
“We know that plastic pollution affect...
Arsenic-laced participles could melt snow earlier, hurt ski resorts
By Lindsay Whitehurst
The Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY » The silvery blue waters of the Great Salt Lake sprawl across the Utah desert, having covered an area nearly the size of Delaware for much of history. For years...
Colorado’s plans to take more from rivers collide with hotter climate, wants of other Western states
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Gov. Jared Polis has signed off on increased funding for water development projects that state officials regard as critical to meet growing demands. But the...
By Laura van der Pol, Dale Manning, Francesca Cotrufo and Megan Machmuller The Conversation
As the effects of climate change intensify and paths for limiting global warming narrow, politicians, media and environmental advocates have rallied behind “carbon farming” as a mutually bene...
By Felicia Fonseca The Associated Press
FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ. » For thousands of years, an Arizona tribe relied on the Colorado River’s natural flooding patterns to farm. Later, it handdug ditches and canals to route water to fields. Now, gravity sends the river water from the north en...
By Fleur Macdonald
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CIRENCESTER, ENGLAND » During a spring day of sun and showers in Gloucestershire in southwestern England, Mike Robinson, a restaurant owner and self-styled “hunter-gatherer,” was out counting the deer on his land. On any given morning, he can see up to 4...
By Sue McMillin
Columnist for The Denver Post
We’ve got a few months to figure out how to organize our lives without the plastic grocery bags and foam take-out containers that are mostly banned under a new Colorado law, and in Denver, a 10 cent fee on disposable bags began Thursday...
