September 22, 2021 By Yusuf Jameel, Carissa Patrone & Kristen P. Patterson New Security Beat
If raging wildfires, extreme drought, and superstorms haven’t made it clear, the latest IPCC report tells us in plain language: the world is poised for worsening climate impacts over the next 30 y...
Hurricane Ida illustrated how the extremes are getting more extreme
By Francis Wilkinson
Bloomberg Opinion
New York City saw it coming. In May, in the kind of clarifying document that invariably gets noticed when it’s too late, the city mapped out the sort of devastation that Hurricane Ida would ...
Hurricane Ida illustrated how the extremes are getting more extreme
By Francis Wilkinson
Bloomberg Opinion
New York City saw it coming. In May, in the kind of clarifying document that invariably gets noticed when it’s too late, the city mapped out the sort of devastation that Hurricane Ida would ...
By Lisa Mascaro, Alan Fram and Matthew Daly The Associated Press WASHINGTON » Scaling down his “build back better” plans, President Joe Biden on Tuesday described a more limited vision to Democratic lawmakers of a $2 trillion government- overhaul package with at least $500 billion to tackle climate ...
By Matthew Daly
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » The Biden administration said Monday it is launching a broad strategy to regulate toxic industrial compounds associated with serious health conditions that are used in products ranging from cookware to carpets and firefigh...
By Josie Sexton
The Denver Post
Outside, the temperature in the North Fork Valley is quickly dropping, while inside a 94-year-old cellar tucked into the mountains around Paonia, the air stays cool and constant.
Palms open, Brandt Thibodeaux “punches down” grapes as their natural yeasts ge...
New study lays out opportunities to slash land-based GHG emissions from forests, farming and consumer behavior
Climate Focus environmental scientist Stephanie Roe and including Project Drawdown senior director of Drawdown Solutions Chad Frischmann among its authors provides a comprehensive guide to...
By William J. Broad
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The enormousness of the global sea has, over ages of exploration, made the appraisals of prime inhabitants more like rough sketches than detailed portraits.
Now scientists have devised a precise way of detecting one of the ocean’s more exotic c...
Google said it will no longer display advertisements on YouTube videos and other content that promotes inaccurate claims about climate change. The decision by the company’s ads team means that it will no longer permit websites or YouTube creators to earn advertising money via Google for content that...
EVRAZ Rocky Mountain Steel hopes to make world’s “greenest steel”
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
A steel mill in Pueblo that has been powered by coal during most of its approximately 140year existence now will get most of its electricity from solar energy.
EVRAZ Rocky Mountain Steel welcomed s...
By Nick Perry
The Associated Press
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND » The pandemic has shown that humans are very good at responding to an immediate crisis, says New Zealand’s Climate Change Minister James Shaw. But when it comes to dealing with a slower-moving threat, such as climate change, he sa...
By Coral Davenport
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WASHINGTON » The Biden administration on Wednesday announced a plan to develop larges cale wind farms along nearly the entire coastline of the United States, the first long-term strategy from the government to produce electricity from offshore tu...
October 14, 2021 Dirce Guerra
Q&A with the experts
Thanksgiving is a day about harmony and love surrounded by that those that we love.
Many people will travel long distances to join family and friends for this joyous celebration. However, many tend to forget a valuable aspect of this day, and...
“I love it … it’s in my DNA”
Vaughn, Markle study ice cores to learn from past, process present
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
Most people might think ahead to their lunch break, weekend or the end of the year. Bruce Vaughn and Bradley Markle think hundreds of thousands of yea...
By Emily Anthes
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When Lizzie Rothwell, an architect in Philadelphia, sent her son to third grade this fall, she stocked his blue L.L. Bean backpack with pencils, wide-ruled paper — and a portable carbon dioxide monitor. The device gave her a quick way to assess how ...
By Don Thompson
The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. » Firefighters and numerous studies credit intensive forest thinning projects with helping save communities such as those recently threatened near Lake Tahoe in California and Nevada, but dissent from some environmen...
By Ismail Turay Jr.
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DAYTON, OHIO » The Federal Aviation Administration is urging the nation’s airports to use firefighting foam that contains socalled “forever chemicals” only during emergencies.
The agency wants to cut back on the foam, which is used to f...
STOCKHOLM » Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for work that found order in seeming disorder, helping to explain and predict complex forces of nature, including expanding our understanding of climate change.
Syukuro Manabe, originally from Japan, and Klaus Has...
Letter to Editor, The Denver Post, What it is and why you should care
Joan Bancroft, Arvada
As a pediatrician my work compels me to advocate for the health of our children.
I have come to regard “home electrification” as a critical step to protect the health of children, families and...
By Philip Marcelo| and David Porter
The Associated Press
NEW YORK » When the remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped record breaking rain on the East Coast this month, staircases leading into New York City’s subway tunnels turned into waterfalls.
In Philadelphia, a commuter line along ...
