birds
By Sarah Kuta
Special to The Denver Post
I am cruising the gravel roads just south of Interstate 80 in Nebraska with my parents when suddenly I spot them: a mass of leggy grey birds with dark red foreheads standing among the short rows of harvested corn. My dad, who graciously agreed to cha...
By Mitch Smith
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BLACKFOOT, S.D. »
On the ice-glazed banks of the Missouri River, coyotes chewed through the hide of a buffalo that recently died from disease. In a corral up the hill, more than 20 orphaned buffalo calves crowded together in the cold with no mother ...
Legislators consider plan that would pay businesses, homeowners to install climate-friendly landscapes
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
Facing a historic megadrought across the West with no end in sight, Colorado lawmakers, looking for easy and effective ways to conserve water, set their...
By The Associated Press
FORT COLLINS » The Montana Stockgrowers Association has asked its state wildlife agency to reject any requests to capture wolves in Montana to be transplanted in Colorado, after voters here passed a wolf reintroduction plan.
The Montana cattle ranchers say Colorado ...
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
A drilling proposal that was seen as one of the first big tests of recent sweeping changes to state oil and gas rules has failed to earn the approval of state regulators.
The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission voted 4-1 Thursday against plans by Kerr-McG...
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 winter i...
WOODSTOCK, GA. » An annual rattlesnake roundup in south Georgia recently changed the format of this month’s event to celebrate living snakes without skinning and butchering them, earning plaudits from animal rights activists.
But no such changes are occurring at a huge rattlesnake roundup beginning...
By Raymond Zhong and Nadja Popovich
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Urban neighborhoods that were redlined by federal officials in the 1930s tended to have higher levels of harmful air pollution eight decades later, a new study has found, adding to a body of evidence that reveals how racist policies in t...
By Noelle Phillips
The Denver Post
Boulder County’s commissioners hope the process of cleaning up the ash and debris from houses burned in the Marshall fire will begin by the end of March even as a lawsuit over the county’s contract to do the work makes its way through the court system.
On Tuesda...
By Matthew Brown
The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT. » U.S. wildlife officials reversed their previous finding that a widely used and highly toxic pesticide could jeopardize dozens of plants and animals with extinction, after receiving pledges from chemical manufacturers that they...
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND » In an ancient grove in northern New Zealand, the mighty conifer known as Tāne Mahuta, lord of the forest, is threatened by the encroachment of a deadly enemy.
It is the largest kauri tree known to be living: 177 feet tall, 53 feet in circumference. Kauri, native to...
By Todd Wilkinson
Writers on the Range
Yellowstone National Park turns 150 years old this month — a milestone truly worth celebrating.
When Westerners think of Yellowstone, probably what comes to mind are its grizzlies, exploding geysers, wolf packs and bison traffic jams, not to mention bubbling...
By Drew Costley
The Associated Press
More than 170 million U.S.-born people who were adults in 2015 were exposed to harmful levels of lead as children, a new study estimates.
Researchers used blood-lead level, census and leaded gasoline consumption data to examine how widespread e...
WASHINGTON » The Biden administration on Monday proposed strict new limits on pollution from buses, delivery vans, tractor-trailers and other heavy trucks — the first time in more than 20 years that tailpipe standards have been tightened for the biggest polluters on the road.
The new draft ...
By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher
The Associated Press
HONOLULU » A well-known adage in Hawaiian, “ ola i ka wai,” means “water is life.”
Native Hawaiians revere water in all its forms as the embodiment of one of the Hawaiian pantheon’s four principal gods.
The resource is so valuable that to have it i...
Change has impact on water quality, transportation in remote areas
By Brittany Peterson
The Associated Press
GRAND LAKE » With a backdrop of mountain vistas and a rink of natural ice, the annual hockey tournament at Grand Lake offers a picturesque snapshot of Colorado’s beauty. What’s not...
By Amy Bounds
Daily Camera
St. Vrain Valley high school students on Thursday shared their work on an endangered Colorado native fish project with Boulder County Parks & Open Space employees.
The students — four sophomores and one senior — are on the data science team that’s part of th...
By Liam Denning
Bloomberg Opinion
Modern society depends on long, complex systems that tap deposits of fuel, often in unstable or inhospitable parts of the world, and carry it across deserts, mountains and high seas eventually to flow from spigots everywhere — even Antarctica.
Power grids in much...
By Noelle Phillips
The Denver Post
The Louisville City Council on Tuesday night decided to allow people who lost homes in the Marshall fire to opt out of new green building codes after hundreds of residents voiced fears that the requirements would increase the cost of rebuilding in...
By Hiroko Tabuchi
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With the bang of a gavel made of recycled plastic and a standing ovation, representatives of 175 nations agreed Wednesday to begin writing a global treaty that would restrict the explosive growth of plastic pollution.
The agreement commits nation...
