By Mira Rojanasakul, Christopher Flavelle, Blacki Migliozzi and Eli Murray
The New York Times
Global warming has focused concern on land and sky as soaring temperatures intensify hurricanes, droughts and wildfires. But another climate crisis is unfolding, underfoot and out of view.
Many of the aq...
By Jack Dura
The Associated Press
BISMARCK, N.D.>> The beloved wild horses that roam freely in North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park could be removed under a National Park Service proposal that worries advocates who say the horses are a cultural link to the past.
Visitors who driv...
STATE REBATE
State’s income-restricted program is part of goal to put nearly 1 million electric vehicles on the road
By Elise Schmelzer
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Coloradans with old cars soon will be able to exchange them for money toward the purchase of an electric vehicle as part of a broader ...
By Amelia Nierenberg
The New York Times
Sara Grant was inside her home this month in Sherman, Conn., a small town near the New York state line. Her 2-year-old was upstairs. Her newborn daughter was in her arms.
Suddenly, she saw her 4-year-old son, Gavin, running up the driveway, sobbing. A bear ...
By Jack Ewing, Clifford Krauss and Lisa Friedman
The New York Times
TETON VILLAGE, Wyo.>> Like many people driving an electric car for the first time, Mikey Marohn had questions: Could he drive hundreds of miles to visit his father without stopping? Where would the chargers be? How did you t...
All-out effort started to save creatures, habitat
By Tammy Webber
The Associated Press
POTTER, Neb.>> When Reed Cammack hears the first meadowlark of spring, he knows his family has made it through another cold, snowy winter on the South Dakota prairie. Nothing’s better, he says, th...
It’s part of a national movement to have universities’ divest all holdings in fossil fuels. The university says its efforts to minimize climate change have been “innovative” and “consistent.”
By Danish Bajwa
August 29, 2023
As the fall semester approaches, student groups at C...
City wants cleaner air, better mobility for cyclists, pedestrians
By John Aguilar
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The venerable American ritual of palming a burger while gripping the steering wheel, as grease and ketchup drip onto shirt and lap, soon could face resistance as thick as honey mustard sauce ...
Wee woodlands support “all manner of life, both above and below ground”
By Cara Buckley
The New York Times
The tiny forest lives atop an old landfill in the city of Cambridge, Mass. Although it is still a baby, it’s already acting quite a bit older than its actual age, which is ju...
n the first moments of the Maui fires, when high winds brought down power poles, slapping electrified wires to the dry grass below, there was a reason the flames erupted all at once in long, neat rows — those wires were bare, uninsulated metal that could spark on contact.
Videos and images analyzed...
The pandemic led to repeated closures in Denver and the U.S. amid poor ventilation
By Apoorva Mandavilli
The New York Times
On a sunny afternoon in a cluttered music room at East High in Denver, two sophomores practiced violin while their music teacher, Keith Oxman, labored over a...
By Gabe Stern
The Associated Press
RENO, Nev.>> Santos Brizuela spent more than two decades laboring outdoors, persisting despite a bout of heatstroke while cutting sugarcane in Mexico and chronic laryngitis from repeated exposure to the hot sun while on various other jobs.
But last summer,...

By Elena Becatoros
The Associated Press
ATHENS, Greece>> The nightmare repeats itself every year: A towering wall of flames devours forests, farmland and homes, forcing animals and people to flee for their lives.
With their hot, dry summers, Greece and its southern European neighbors exp...
By Michael Phillis, Matthew Daly and John Flesher
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON>> The Biden administration weakened regulations protecting millions of acres of wetlands Tuesday, saying it had no choice after the Supreme Court sharply limited the federal government’s jurisdiction over them....
By Tara Copp
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON>> No harmful levels of carcinogenic PCBs were found inside the missile launch facilities at F.E. Warren Air Force base in Wyoming, the service said Tuesday, as it looks for possible causes for cancers being reported among its nuclear missi...
By David Sharp and Jim Morris
The Associated Press
VANCOUVER, British Columbia>> Firefighters battling wildfires in Canada on Saturday sought to stop flames that swept through the West Kelowna suburbs in British Columbia, forced the evacuation of a university campus and fouled the air with t...
By Lisa Friedman
The New York Times
The Department of Interior announced Tuesday that it had reinstated Obama-era safety rules for offshore drilling that were created in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe that killed 11 people and fouled the Gulf of Mexico.
The Trump administratio...
By Noelle Phillips
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A veteran employee of the Bureau of Land Management in the San Luis Valley filed a whistleblower complaint Monday, saying her bosses are failing to enforce livestock grazing rules on public lands and are jeopardizing the ecosystem along the Rio Grande Ri...
By Audrey McAvoy, Claire Rush and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher
The Associated Press
LAHAINA, Hawaii>> Two weeks after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century swept through the Maui community of Lahaina, authorities say anywhere between 500 and 1,000 people remain unaccounted for — a st...
Environmental analysis of potential impacts of hauling crude oil insufficient, court finds
By Elise Schmelzer
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Development has paused on a proposed railway that would haul millions of gallons of crude oil through Colorado after a federal appeals court on Friday found sign...
