As the West gets drier, Colorado tries to get every drop of moisture it can out of winter snowstorms
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
All across Colorado, teams of cloud seeders keep watch over the winter months, looking for the right conditions to make water.
Snow, to be precise. But t...
By Ivan Penn
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NEVADA CITY, CALIF. » In the Gold Rush, Northern California attracted prospectors looking for financial independence. Now, this area is at the vanguard of a new movement — people seeking to use only the energy they produce themselves....
By Jack Ewing and Eric Lipton
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WOBURN, MASS. » Already far behind Asian manufacturers in building electric car batteries, U.S. automakers and their suppliers are racing to develop a new generation of batteries that are cheaper, can pack in more energy and charge fas...
By Frank Jordans
The Associated Press
BERLIN » The world must take “radical action” to shift away from fossil fuels, including investing $5.7 trillion annually in solar, wind and other forms of clean power this decade to ensure that global warming doesn’t pass dangerous thresholds,...
By Maggie Astor
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Startlingly large amounts of methane are leaking from wells and pipelines in New Mexico, according to a new analysis of aerial data, suggesting that the oil and gas industry may be contributing more to climate change than previously was know...
By Ved Nanda
Columnist for The Denver Post
Unlike the wide denunciation of Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine, the impact of the war on the future of the Arctic region has gone mostly unnoticed. The immediate concern is that the Arctic Council, the intergovernmental bo...
By Christopher Flavelle, Julie Tate and Erin Schaff
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GRANT TOWN, W.VA. » On a hilltop overlooking Paw Paw Creek, 15 miles south of the Pennsylvania border, looms a fortresslike structure with a single smokestack, the only viable business in a dying Appalachian town....
By Deborah Swearingen
Daily Camera
Community Foundation Boulder County is preparing to distribute $28.5 million of the money collected in the Boulder County Wildfire Fund, with up to $20 million earmarked specifically for Marshall fire rebuilding efforts.
However, though talks are ongoing...
Crow’s $1.2 billion proposal would help states, tribes better prepare for disasters
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
Inspired by an office that launched in Colorado nearly a decade ago, U.S. Rep. Jason Crow wants to set aside more than $1 billion to help states and Native American tribes prepare...
By John Wenzel
The Denver Post
Denver Zoo on Wednesday launched an emergency fundraising drive to raise money for zoos in Ukraine that have been devastated by the country’s brutal, ongoing invasion by Russian forces.
“I’ve seen the reports that many of the zookeepers in Ukraine are sleepi...
By Sabrina Valle
HOUSTON, March 23 (Reuters) - Occidental Petroleum (OXY.N) on Wednesday outlined plans to advance its clean energy transition business, including spending between $800 million and $1 billion on a facility to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air.The proposed facility, the world'...
By Dylan Anderson
Steamboat Pilot & Today
A federal court ruling in February relisting gray wolves as an endangered species across much of the United States could complicate Colorado’s wolf reintroduction effort.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service indicated its latest intentio...
By Adeel Hassan
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With the pandemic entering a new phase in the United States marked by fewer precautions and the rise of the even more transmissible omicron subvariant BA.2, the Biden administration has begun stressing the importance of mitigating the risk of indoor...
By Marcy Gordon
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » Companies would be required to disclose the greenhouse gas emissions they produce and how climate risk affects their business under new rules proposed Monday by the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of a drive across the go...
By Laura Ungar
The Associated Press
GRAND PORTAGE, MINN. » To administer this COVID test, Todd Kautz had to lie on his belly in the snow and worm his upper body into the narrow den of a hibernating black bear. Training a light on its snout, Kautz carefully slipped a long cotton swa...
WASHINGTON » The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a plan that would restrict smokestack emissions from power plants and other industrial sources that burden downwind areas with smog-causing pollution they can’t control.
The federal plan announced Friday is intended to help more ...
By Susan Montoya Bryan
The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE » National Park Service Director Chuck Sams said Tuesday he and other officials are committed to boosting the role Native American tribes can play in managing public lands around the U.S.
He told members of a congressional committee ...
New pollution permit to bring more challenges for company; nearby residents still skeptical
By Noelle Phillips
The Denver Post
After years of spewing toxic pollutants, Suncor’s aging Commerce City oil refinery now will be the focus of three separate air quality monitoring programs...
By Franklin Briceño
The Associated Press
CIUDAD PACHACUTEC, PERÚ » Walter de la Cruz scrambled down a large sand dune in the fog to reach a rock overlooking the Pacific Ocean, where he has fished for three decades. He cast a hook into the waters off Peru’s coast several times, with no luck...
By Brittany Peterson and Matthew Brown
The Associated Press
DECKERS » Dripping flaming fuel, a line of workers slowly descends a steep, snow-covered hillside above central Colorado’s South Platte River, torching piles of woody debris that erupt into flames shooting two stories high.
It’s ...
