Forest officials say clearing swaths of trees will help in taking energy out of wildfire By Bruce Finley The Denver Post
GOULD » Stunned by unprecedented megafires, Colorado is embracing logging — mowing holes up to 140 acres in beetleinfested lodgepole pines — in an effort to revive out-...
Eat Just’s “cultured chicken” to be an ingredient in nuggets
By Mike Ives
© The New York Times Co.
HONG KONG » First, meat came from farms and forests. Then, it came from factories. More recently, entrepreneurs have been making it from plants.
Some have wondered whether there’s a more ...
By Seth Borenstein and Frank Jordans
The Associated Press
As an extreme year for hurricanes, wildfires and heat waves comes to an end, the head of the United Nations challenged world leaders to make 2021 the year that humanity ends its “war on nature” and commits to a future free of planet-warming...
By The Associated Press
GENEVA » Climate change is increasingly damaging the U.N.’s most cherished heritage sites, a leading conservation agency warned Wednesday, reporting that Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and dozens of other natural wonders are facing severe threats.
Climate change that has le...
By Somini Sengupta TNYT
I grew up in the age of smog in Southern California. I lived for a few years in one of the world’s most polluted cities, Delhi. I once took my daughter on vacation to the city where I was born, Calcutta, only to rush her to the emergency room because she couldn’t breathe; th...
Climate change, beetles, and disease imperiling long term survival of high elevation pine tree, key source for grizzly bears and found across the US West. Fish and Wildlife Study published Wed. would protect the whitebark pine tree under Endangered Species Act. The trees can live up to 1,000 ye...
By Mead Gruver The Associated Press
CHEYENNE » The life-or-death journey made by mule deer during the second-longest big game migration in North America came down to their ability to squeeze through a fence — a discovery made by scientists using wildlife GPS tracking techniques...
Oil and gas rules will aid economy and workforce
By Jeff Robbins and Dan Gibbs
Guest Commentary
Last year, Colorado passed a new Oil and Gas Law, SB 19-181, that changed the mission of the state’s regulatory agency from “fostering” the oil and gas industry to “regulating” the industry, pr...
By Matthew R Sanderson, Burke Griggs and Jacob A. Miller
The Conversation
Aslow-moving crisis threatens the U.S. Central Plains, which grow a quarter of the nation’s crops. Underground, the region’s lifeblood — water — is disappearing, placing one of the world’s major food-producing regions at ris...
By Dolf Gielen and Morgan Bazilian The Conversation
John Kerry helped bring the world into the Paris climate agreement and expanded America’s reputation as a climate leader. That reputation is now in tatters, and President-elect Joe Biden is asking Kerry to rebuild it again — this time as U.S....
By Lisa Friedman © The New York Times Co.
WASHINGTON » President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency was rushing to complete one of its last regulatory priorities, aiming to obstruct the creation of air and water-pollution controls far into the future, when a senior career scientist...
By Tom Krisher The Associated Press
DETROIT » General Motors is switching sides in the legal fight against California’s right to set its own clean-air standards, abandoning the Trump administration as the president’s term nears its close.
CEO Mary Barra said in a letter Monday to envi...
Oil, gas commission OKs new regulations By Judith Kohler The Denver Post
After delays caused by the pandemic and a nearly full change in members, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission on Monday unanimously approved a broad swath of new rules seen as some of the strictest in the...
By Lisa Friedman
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WASHINGTON » When John Kerry served as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state, he helped steer the negotiation of the Paris Agreement, locking down commitments from nearly 200 nations — including his own — to begin to reverse the dange...
By Michael Elizabeth Sakas
Colorado Public Radio
Colorado is wasting more and recycling less.
From 2018 to 2019, the state’s recycling rate dropped to 15.9% from 17.2%, far below the national average of 35%, according to an annual report released by Eco-Cycle and the Colorado Public Interest Rese...
By Veronica Penney © The New York Times Co.
New research on the connection between climate change and winter drownings has found that reported drowning deaths are increasing exponentially in areas with warmer winters.
The study, published Wednesday in the journal PLoS One, looked at drownings...
By Michelle Li The Associated Press/Report for America
CHARLESTON, S.C. » Vickie Hicks, who weaves intricate sweetgrass baskets in Charleston, South Carolina’s historic city market, remembers climbing onto the table at her grandmother’s booth downtown when the floodwaters rushed by.
Decades l...
By Margie Mason and Robin Mcdowell The Associated Press
SUMATRA, INDONESIA » With his hand clamped tightly over her mouth, she could not scream, the 16-year-old girl recalls — and no one was around to hear her anyway. She describes how her boss raped her amid the tall trees o...
By Nicholas K. Geranios The Associated Press
SPOKANE, WASH. » The Trump administration announced plans Thursday that ease protections for sage grouse in the West, prompting an outcry by critics who say the move paves the way for widespread mining and drilling and ignores a federal cour...
