By Alan Fram and Zeke Miller
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » President Joe Biden on Saturday hailed Congress’ passage of his $1 trillion infrastructure package as a “monumental step forward for the nation” after fractious fellow Democrats resolved a months-long standoff in their ranks to...
By Joe Neguse and Dan Gibbs
Guest Commentary
Last year’s record-setting wildfire season in Colorado was a wake-up call. The Cameron Peak and East Troublesome Fires, which burned nearly 400,000 acres combined, threatened homes, businesses, wildlife, and local water supplies.
In the wake of these f...
By Ellen Knickmeyer
The Associated Press
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND » John Kerry is everywhere and on the move at a fateful U.N. climate summit.
President Joe Biden’s envoy at the talks in Glasgow, Scotland, Kerry steams from side talks with U.S. rivals China and Russia that painstakingl...
Some have been “putting pressure on our administrators to have the campus do the right things”
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Colorado State University student Kaydee Barker rides buses or her bicycle for transport, buys only used clothing, and eats vegetarian local food — aligni...
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
While conducting research in Greenland, ice scientist Twila Moon was struck this summer by what climate change has doomed Earth to lose and what could still be saved.
The Arctic is warming three times faster than the rest of the planet and is on suc...
By Brad Plumer and Lisa Friedman
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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND »
More than 40 countries pledged to phase out coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, in a deal announced Thursday at the United Nations climate summit that prompted Alok Sharma, the head of the conference, to p...
By Mary Clare Jalonick
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » The $1 trillion infrastructure plan that now goes to President Joe Biden to sign into law has money for roads, bridges, ports, rail transit, safe water, the power grid, broadband internet and more.
Here’s a breakdown of the bill:
...
Some have been “putting pressure on our administrators to have the campus do the right things”
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Colorado State University student Kaydee Barker rides buses or her bicycle for transport, buys only used clothing, and eats vegetarian local food — aligning her a...
Businesses, partners working to restore nature to RiNo, Five Points In Denver, CO
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
Jevon Taylor’s goal as a clothes designer and retailer goes beyond selling shirts and sweatshorts, just as his reasons for promoting the “greening” of the Five Points neighborh...
By Luis Andres Henao and Jessie Wardarski
The Associated Press
POINTE-AUX-CHENES, LA. »
On a boat ride along a bayou that shares the name of his Native American tribe, Donald Dardar points to a cross marking his ancestors’ south Louisiana burial ground — a place he fears will disappear.
He point...
By Frank Jordans and Jill Lawless
The Associated Press
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND » World leaders promised to protect Earth’s forests, cut methane emissions and help South Africa wean itself off coal at the U.N. climate summit Tuesday — part of a flurry of deals intended to avert catastrophic globa...
By Matthew Daly
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » The Biden administration on Tuesday launched a wide-ranging plan to reduce methane emissions, targeting a potent greenhouse gas that contributes significantly to global warming and packs a stronger short-term punch than even carbon dioxide.
The pl...
Wildlife advocates, scientists sued after 2018 status change
By Matthew Brown
The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT. » U.S. wildlife officials have agreed to keep federal protections in place for the snow-loving Canada lynx, under a court settlement approved Monday by a judge in M...
By Brian Melley
The Associated Press
SEQUOIA CREST, CALIF. » Ashtyn Perry was barely as tall as the shovel she stomped into barren ground where a wildfire last year ravaged the California mountain community of Sequoia Crest and destroyed dozens of its signature behemoth trees.
The 13-year...
By Matthew Brown
The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT. » The Biden administration is planning to sell oil and gas leases on huge tracts of public land in the U.S. West, despite the Interior Department’s conclusion that doing so could cost society billions of dollars in climate change impacts, accor...
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
Having pledged to produce carbon- free electricity by 2050, Xcel Energy has a new goal of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions from its natural gas operations in the same timeframe.
Xcel Energy, the largest electric utility in Colorado, said...
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND »
World leaders turned up the heat and resorted to end-of-the-world rhetoric Monday in an attempt to bring new urgency to sputtering international climate negotiations.
The metaphors were dramatic and mixed at the start of the t...
By Carla K. Johnson
The Associated Press
The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 5 million on Monday, less than two years into a crisis that has not only devastated poor countries but also humbled wealthy ones with first-rate health care systems.
Together, the United States, the Europe...
By Stanley Reed
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ABINGDON, ENGLAND »
Harnessing fusion energy into something commercially viable — and maybe, ultimately, a clean source of power that replaces fossil fuels for centuries to come — has long been considered by some as the ultimate moonshot.
But in...
