Oregon will provide up to 10 animals this winter, Parks and Wildlife says
By Elise Schmelzer
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Oregon will provide the first gray wolves for Colorado’s voter-mandated reintroduction of the species, wildlife officials announced Friday after a months-long search for a state ...
By Edmar Barros
The Associated Press
MANAUS, Brazil>> Communities dependent on the Amazon rainforest’s waterways are stranded without supply of fuel, food or filtered water. Dozens of river dolphins perished and washed up on shore. And thousands of lifeless fish float on the water’s surface....
By Judith Kohler
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Larry and Mary Bosaw, who live near Fort Lupton, have something in common with municipal officials and landowners in Frederick and Dacono as well as state regulators: They want K.P. Kauffman Co. to take care of the problems created by its oil and gas operati...
By Todd Richmond
The Associated Press
David Willard has been checking the grounds of Chicago’s lakefront exhibition center for dead birds for 40 years. On Thursday morning he found something horrible: Hundreds of dead songbirds, so thick they look...
By Christina Larson
The Associated Press
The world’s frogs, salamanders, newts and other amphibians remain in serious trouble.
A new global assessment has found that 41% of amphibian species that scientists have studied are threatened with extinction, meaning they are either vulne...
ENVIRONMENT
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
Far more people are in harm’s way as they move into high flood zones across the globe, adding to an increase in watery disasters from climate change, a new study said.
Since 1985, the number of the world’s settlements in the riskiest fl...
By Ashraf Khalil and Didi Tang
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON>> Wearing an “I Love Pandas” T-shirt and clutching a panda-covered diary, Kelsey Lambert bubbled with excitement as she glimpsed the real thing. She and her mother, Alison, had made a special trip from San Antonio just to watch t...
Goats are particularly good at one thing: Eating. Unlike a horse or cow that leaves noxious weeds behind, goats eat the whole menu of pesky weeds, bushes, and small trees. That means goats can be one of the answers to the growing problem of tinder-dry, highly flammable forests.
In Durango, former f...
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...
