By Julie Creswell
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Driving rain pelted the windows of “the Tower,” a second-story glass enclosure in Ray Gaesser’s home that provides a view for miles of the gentle, rolling fields around Corning, Iowa. Inside, away from the elements, Gaesser pondered what the coming year m...
By Matthew Brown
The Associated Press
CODY, WYO. » The rush to build wind farms to combat climate change is colliding with preservation of one of the West’s most spectacular predators — the golden eagle — as the species teeters on the edge of decline.
Ground zero in the conflict is Wyoming, a str...
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
Seven Western states and the 40 million people in them that depend on the Colorado River can’t yet agree on how to use less water and on Tuesday federal officials told them to cut even deeper.
The river is drying and the states through which it flows — Arizona, C...
By Seth Borenstein, Matthew Daly and Michael Phillis
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » After decades of inaction in the face of escalating natural disasters and sustained global warming, Congress hopes to make clean energy so cheap in all aspects of life that it’s nearly irresistible. The House is...
Mideast nations wake up to damage from climate change
By Lee Keath The Associated Press
CAIRO » Temperatures in the Middle East have risen far faster than the world’s average in the past three decades. Precipitation has been decreasing, and experts predict droughts will come with grea...
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Safe and easily accessible water is vital for the entire population, whether for drinking, domestic use, and agricultural production.
Even while public awareness of water usage has increased in recent years, much more can be done in this area....
By Brittany Peterson and Suman Naishadham
The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE » On a recent, scorching afternoon in the city, off-road vehicles cruised up and down a stretch of dry riverbed where normally the Rio Grande flows. The drivers weren’t thrill-seekers, but biologists hoping to save as many ...
By Michael Phillis
The Associated Press
ST. LOUIS » The climate deal reached last week by Senate Democrats could reduce the amount of greenhouse gases that American farmers produce by expanding programs that help accumulate carbon in soil, fund climate-focused research and lower the abundant metha...
By John Leicester and Nicholas Garriga
The Associated Press
PARIS » Fanning out like urban guerrillas through Paris’ darkened streets well after midnight, the anti-waste activists shinny up walls and drain pipes, reaching for switches to turn off the lights.
Click. Click. Click. One by one, the o...
By Noelle Phillips and Matthew Daly
The Denver Post and The Associated Press
The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday said it plans to do outreach to communities where there are elevated cancer risks — including Lakewood — because of medical sterilization facilities that use ethylene oxide...
By Maria Abi-Habib and Bryan Avelar
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Mexico, or large parts of it, is running out of water.
An extreme drought has seen taps run dry across the country, with nearly twothirds of all municipalities facing a water shortage that is forcing people in some places to line up for...
By Lee Keath
The Associated Press
CAIRO » Temperatures in the Middle East have risen far faster than the world’s average in the past three decades. Precipitation has been decreasing, and experts predict droughts will come with greater frequency and severity.
The Middle East is one of the most vul...
By Sameer Yasir
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CHENNAI, INDIA » Amul Vasudevan, a vegetable hawker in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, thought she was going to go out of business.
The state had forbidden retailers to use disposable plastic bags, which were critical for her livelihood because th...
By John Flesher, Christina Larson and Patrick Whittle The Associated Press
GLEN ARBOR, MICH. » Concealed behind trees near Lake Michigan, two scientists remotely manipulated a robotic owl on the forest floor. As the intruder flapped its wings and hooted, a merlin guarding its nest in a nearby pine ...
By EPA standard, much of state has hazardous levels
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
More than a hundred drinking water sources across Colorado — ranging from cities and counties to elementary schools and campgrounds — contain what are now considered to be potentially hazardous levels of PFAS, t...
By Lisa Friedman and Brad Plumer
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WASHINGTON » The $369 billion climate and tax package forged in a surprise deal by Senate Democrats would be the most ambitious action ever taken by the United States to try to stop the planet from catastrophically overheating.
The agreeme...
By Jack Ewing and Karen Weise
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Nearly three years ago, Amazon announced that it would buy 100,000 custom-made delivery vehicles from Rivian Automotive, a fledgling maker of electric vehicles. On Thursday, after some delays, the companies said hundreds of the vans we...
By Conrad Swanson The Denver Post
Water officials from Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming published a plan this week to appease federal officials wanting to save water from the drying Colorado River but didn’t include any specific, mandatory cuts to save the precious resource.
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By Matthew Brown The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT. » The Biden administration on Monday said the government will plant more than one billion trees across millions of acres of burned and dead woodlands in the U.S. West, as officials struggle to counter the increasing toll on the nation’s for...
Natural gas operator fined $3.25M
By Noelle Phillips
The Denver Post
A Weld County natural gas operator will pay a $3.25 million fine and spend more than $1.5 million to upgrade one of its plants to reduce harmful air emissions in an agreement with the state, the U.S. Department of Justice and th...
