Harnessing the Power of People to Fight Ocean Trash
In partnership with volunteer organizations and individuals around the globe, the International Coastal Cleanup® (ICC) engages people to remove trash from the world’s beaches and waterways. Thanks to millions of volunteers around the world...
By Sam Metz and Rick Bowmer
The Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY>> It’s lunchtime at the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District and a colony of sabethes cyaneus — also known as the paddle-legged beauty for its feathery appendages and iridescent coloring — find their way to Ella Branham.
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$1 billion or more events
The deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia’s watery storm surge helped push the United States to a record for the number of weather disasters that cost $1 billion or more. And there’s still four months to go on what’s looking more like a calendar of calamities.
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By Matt O’Brien and Hannah Fingerhut
The Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa>> The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure.
But one thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed for its technology was plenty of water, pulled from the watershed of the Rac...
Urban animals can’t take the heat
By Emily Anthes
The New York Times
For many wild animals urban environments are unappealing homes, covered in concrete and carved up by car traffic. As buildings go up and roads are laid down, some species seem to vanish from the landscape, and animal communities...
UNITED NATIONS
By Manuela Andreoni
The New York Times
Thousands of invasive species introduced to new ecosystems around the world are causing more than $423 billion in estimated losses to the global economy every year by harming nature, damaging food systems and threatening human health, a wide-r...
By Alan Henceroth and Geoff Buchheister
Guest Commentary
Hitting the road before dawn, quietly waiting in the cold to nab one of the first chairs up the mountain, all in the hope of capturing that exhilarating sensation that only skiers and snowboarders know — when the stars and snowpack a...
By Anthony Ham
The New York Times
A male saltwater crocodile approached a female saltie — as they’re known in Australia — in the same enclosure at Australia Zoo. He snapped at her aggressively.
But then in a change of heart that wasn’t what you’d expect from one of Australia’s most fearsome preda...
CLIMATE CHANGE ASSESSMENT
By Suzie Romig
Pilot & Today
When State Climatologist Russ Schumacher presented a preview of the Climate Change in Colorado assessment update to a conference audience in late August in Steamboat Springs, he said the statewide annual temperature has warmed by ...
By Jesse Bedayn
The Associated Press/ Report for America
Utah officials have pushed the Great Salt Lake to the brink of an ecological collapse because they allowed upstream water to be diverted for decades to farmers growing alfalfa, hay and other crops, according to a lawsuit file...
LONGMONT
By Matthew Bennett
Prairie Mountain Media
On the morning of Sept. 12, 2013, Dale Rademacher departed Vance Brand Airport on a helicopter ride that he remembers as if it were yesterday.
Record rainfall was about to generate flooding in Longmont, and Rademacher, who was the city’s directo...
In its most aggressive move yet to protect federal land from oil and gas exploration, the Biden administration announced Wednesday it would prohibit drilling in 13 million acres of pristine wilderness in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska and cancel all drilling leases in the Arctic National W...
BOULDER
Have you heard the buzz?
University rehomes 80-year-old beehives found in Old Main
By Olivia Doak
Daily Camera
boulder>> Two beehives believed to be at least 80 years old were rehomed after they were discovered in Old Main at the University of Colorado in August.
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U.N. WEATHER AGENCY
By Jamey Keaten and Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
GENEVA>> Earth has sweltered through its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured, with a record warm August capping a season of brutal and deadly temperatures, according to the World Meteorological Organiz...
By Noelle Phillips
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For the second time in a month, the Environmental Protection Agency has fined Suncor Energy for violations at its Commerce City oil refinery.
Suncor will pay $760,000 after it produced gasoline that did not mee...
In a research paper, the scientists say capturing carbon dioxide directly from the oceans could have advantages over direct air capture.
By Ananya Chetia
September 2, 2023
As human activity and climate change increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the ocean, harming coral reefs ...
By Mark Harden
Columnist for The Denver Post
The news out of Hawaii has been deeply tragic. The Maui disaster is already the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, and the island’s death toll continues to rise, with hundreds still missing.
And the cluster of fires that broke out on Aug. ...
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 Christopher Rugaber
The Associated Press
JACKSON HOLE, Wyo.>> Rising trade barriers. Aging populations. A broad transition from carbon-spewing fossil fuels to renewable energy.
The prevalence of such trends across the world could intensify global inflation pressures in the coming years a...
OIL AND GAS
Panel will broaden scope with new name
By Judith Kohler
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The agency that regulates oil and gas in Colorado has a new name and new duties, which include building a regulatory framework for the growing geothermal energy sector that is a priority for Gov. Jared Pol...
