By Victoria Milko and Julie Watson
The Associated Press
JAKARTA, INDONESIA »
The walls of Saifullah’s home in northern Jakarta are lined like tree rings, marking how high the floodwaters have reached each year — some more than 4 feet from the damp dirt floor.
When the water gets too high...
By John Aguilar
The Denver Post
As electric cars become an increasingly common sight on Colorado’s roads, the state is ready to target a chunk of the transportation sector that largely has escaped electrification so far — the thousands of buses, trucks and delivery vehicles that belch greenhouse g...
By Coral Davenport
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WASHINGTON » In the most important environmental case in more than a decade, the Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments in a dispute that could restrict or even eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to control the pollution that ...
By David Biller
The Associated Press
PETROPOLIS, BRAZIL » Every day, Alex Sandro Condé leaves the shelter where he has been staying since deadly landslides devastated his poor, mountainside neighborhood and seeks out others who have suffered loss. He doesn’t have to look hard.
C...
3.3 billion people’s daily lives “are highly vulnerable” to extreme weather
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
Deadly with extreme weather now, climate change is about to get so much worse. It is likely going to make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer, gloomier and way more dangerous in the ...
By Noelle Phillips
The Denver Post
Colorado will join three other Rocky Mountain states to apply for federal money to create a hydrogen hub that would help Colorado meet its goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions over the next 28 years.
Gov. Jared Polis joined the governors of New Mexico, Ut...
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
Millions of dollars are headed to Colorado State University to study wildfire prevention, mitigation and recovery, after years of drought and record-setting wildfires across the state.
The $20 million grant will be split between CSU’s Colorado For...
Extended dry period in the West likely to continue, straining vital water supplies
By Conrad Swanson The Denver Post
Not only is the American West the driest it’s been in more than a millennia, but the megadrought is likely to continue for years, diminishing Colorado’s short water supply and...
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
America’s coastline will see sea levels rise in the next 30 years by as much as they did in the entire 20th century, with major Eastern cities hit regularly with costly floods even on sunny days, a government report warns.
By 2050, seas lapping against the ...
Study says 22-year dry spell has surpassed previous worst from 1500s amid rough times in 2020 and 2021
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
The American West’s megadrought deepened so much last year that it is now the driest in at least 1,200 years and is a worst-case climate change scenario p...
By Matthew Brown, Matthew Daly and Kevin McGill The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » A federal judge on Friday blocked the Biden administration’s attempt to put greater emphasis on potential damage from greenhouse gas emissions when creating rules for polluting industries.
U.S. District Judge...
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
The long-standing lawsuit, in which three Colorado governments argue that the energy corporations Suncor and ExxonMobil “knowingly and substantially contributed to the climate crisis,” must remain in state court, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
The ruling marks th...
By John Aguilar
The Denver Post
December’s Marshall fire spared the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, an expanse of grasslands between Superior and Arvada that, had winds shifted, could have provided 6,200 acres of additional droughtstricken fuel to the destructive blaze.
What...
By Cathy Bussewitz
The Associated Press
NEW YORK » Many of the world’s largest companies are failing to take significant enough steps to meet their pledges to vastly reduce the impact of their greenhouse gas emissions in the decades ahead.
That’s the conclusion of a new report by the NewC...
By Ellen Barry
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PORTLAND, ORE. » It would hit Alina Black in the snack aisle at Trader Joe’s, a wave of guilt and shame that made her skin crawl.
Something as simple as nuts. They came wrapped in plastic, often in layers of it, that she imagined leaving her...
By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press
Antarctica’s so-called Doomsday Glacier, nicknamed because it is huge and coming apart, is mostly thwarting an international effort to figure out how dangerously vulnerable it is.
A large iceberg broke off the deteriorating Thwaites glacier and, along w...
By Christopher Rugaber
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » How far the Federal Reserve can go to compel banks to consider the consequences of climate change in their lending policies could take center stage at a Senate hearing Thursday on the nominations of Sarah Bloom Raskin and two economists to t...
By Noelle Phillips
The Denver Post
Boulder County officials expect to select a company next week to clean up what’s left of the homes destroyed by the Marshall fire in late December — a job that will take months to complete and cost tens of millions of dollars.
Cleanup has been one of the...
By Howard Fendrich and Pat Graham
The Associated Press
BEAVER CREEK »
Ski racers settling into the start gate for Alpine World Cup events in the Rocky Mountains in early December squinted through sunshine that carried the temperature toward 50 degrees and glanced down at a course covered ...
“This plan will help reduce the risk — it will not eliminate the risk”
By John Aguilar
The Denver Post
CASTLE ROCK » Meghan Diekmann’s home in an upscale neighborhood in this Douglas County town 30 miles south of Denver is shaded by stands of tall pines and surrounded by clusters of Gambe...
