By Jim Robbins
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HELENA, MONT. » Few places in the world rival Montana’s fly fishing. The state’s cold, clear mountain streams are renowned for their large populations of trout, especially the rainbow and brown.
But this is a drought year, ...
By Daisy Nguyen
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO » Baby salmon are dying by the thousands in one California river, and an entire run of endangered salmon could be wiped out in another. Fishermen who make their living off adult salmon, once they enter the Pacific Ocean, are sounding the a...
The Biden administration will revise a Trump-era rule that allowed many coal-fired power plants to avoid or delay installing equipment that could prevent lead, selenium and other toxic pollutants from seeping into rivers and streams, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Mond...
By Sergio Olmos
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PAISLEY, ORE. » At the eastern edge of the Bootleg fire on Friday afternoon, there was a surreal sign of the life that once existed in a patch of Oregon forest now turned to ash, smoke and leafless burnt trees: the murmurs of cattle.
Cows wandere...
Town joined a national movement when it voted to give its watershed a voice in decisions
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Leaders of the Colorado mountain town Nederland just gave their surrounding 448-square mile watershed “fundamental and inalienable rights,” like those conferred on peop...
By Tom Krisher and Hope Yen
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » In a major step against climate change, President Joe Biden is proposing a return to aggressive Obama-era vehicle mileage standards over five years, according to industry and government officials briefed on the plan. He’...
By Somini Sengupta
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ORDBEND, CALIF. » In America’s fruit and nut basket, water is now the most precious crop of all.
It explains why, amid a historic drought parching much of the American West, a grower of premium sushi rice has concluded that it makes better bus...
By Gillian Flaccus
The Denver Post
PORTLAND, ORE. » The monstrous wildfire burning in Oregon has grown to a third the size of Rhode Island and spreads miles each day, but evacuations and property losses have been minimal compared with much smaller blazes in densel...
By John Flesher
The Associated Press
TRAVERSE CITY, MICH. » Minnesota state Sen. Foung Hawj was never a fan of the “Asian carp” label commonly applied to four imported fish species that are wreaking havoc in the U.S. heartland, infesting numerous rivers and bearin...
By Philip Marcelo
The Associated Press
BOSTON » When Boston socialites Minna Hall and Harriet Hemenway sought to end the slaughter of birds in the name of 19th century high fashion, they picked a logical namesake for their cause: John James Audubon, a naturalist celebrate...
4-H for seniors, farmer mental health, 5G connections part of helping communities
By Elizabeth Hernandez
The Denver Post
BURLINGTON »
With the July sun scorching the Eastern Plains, Elaine Wright, Wayne Runge and Ron Hielscher delighted in the dirt beneath their fingers as they watered a ga...
By By Somini Sengupta
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Some of Europe’s richest countries lay in disarray this weekend as raging rivers burst through their banks in Germany and Belgium, submerging towns, slamming parked cars against trees and leaving Europeans shellshocked at the intensity of the ...
By Alex Edwards
Special to The Daily Camera
Boulder has a goal of making 85% of its garbage or waste recyclable, and take-out food containers make up a large portion of that waste.
That’s what the repEATer app developed by two Boulder residents is seeking to change.
Chris Todd and Aushwi...
By Gillian Flaccus and Nathan Howard
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PORTLAND, ORE. » Karuk tribal citizen Troy Hockaday Sr. watched helplessly last fall as a raging wildfire leveled the homes of five of his family members, swallowed acres of forest where his people hunt deer, elk and b...
“If we don’t have the forest, we don’t have life”
By Anton Troianovski
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MAGARAS, RUSSIA » For the third year in a row, residents of northeastern Siberia are reeling from the worst wildfires they can remember, and many are left feeling helpless, angry and ...
By Geir Moulson
The Associated Press
BERLIN » German Chancellor Angela Merkel surveyed what she called a “surreal, ghostly” scene in a devastated village on Sunday, pledging quick financial aid and a redoubled political focus on curbing climate change as the death toll from floods in Wes...
Even a small increase in remote work can change traffic patterns
By Emily Badger © The New York Times Co.
There is something uniquely awful about that time of day when there is no good way to get around. The car horns sound nastier as downtown traffic snarls. The elbows feel sharper on a jammed su...
By The Associated Press
BLY, ORE. » The largest wildfire in the U.S. torched more dry forest landscape in Oregon on Sunday, one of dozens of major blazes burning across the West as critically dangerous fire weather loomed in the coming days.
The destructive Bootleg fire j...
Portions of the Amazon rainforest are now emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb — a troubling sign for the fight against climate change, a new study suggests.
Deforestation and an accelerating warming trend have contributed to the change in the carbon balance, which is most severe i...
By Steven Erlanger and Somini Sengupta © The New York Times Co.
BRUSSELS » In what may be a seminal moment in the global effort to fight climate change, Europe on Wednesday challenged the rest of the world by laying out an ambitious blueprint to pivot away from fossil fuels over the ...
