By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
Gas stoves are contributing more to global warming than previously thought because of constant tiny methane leaks while they’re off, a new study found.
The same study that tested emissions around stoves in homes raised new concerns about indoor air ...
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
Earth simmered to the sixth-hottest year on record in 2021, according to several newly released temperature measurements.
And scientists say the exceptionally hot year is part of a long-term warming trend that shows hints of accelerating.
Two U.S. agencies...
By Matthew Brown and Jonathan J. Cooper
The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT. » The Biden administration said Tuesday it will significantly expand efforts to stave off catastrophic wildfires that have torched areas of the U.S. West by more aggressively thinning forests around “hot spots” wh...
By Clifford Krauss
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HOUSTON » Exxon Mobil, under increasing pressure from investors to address climate change, announced Tuesday that it had the “ambition” to reach zero net greenhouse gas emissions from its operations by 2050.
The oil company, the largest in the U...
By Henry Fountain
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SILVER LAKE, ORE. » When a monster of a wildfire whipped into the Sycan Marsh Preserve here in south-central Oregon in July, Katie Sauerbrey feared the worst.
Sauerbrey, a fire manager for The Nature Conservancy, the conservation group that owns the 30,0...
By John Aguilar
The Denver Post
LYONS » Just 30 feet beyond Linda Hubbard’s kitchen window is the river that upended her life nearly a decade ago.
It was 2013 and the North St. Vrain River — swollen angry with too much water in too little time — hurled boulders, propane tanks and tree limbs into ...
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
SUPERIOR » Too many houses built too close together on the tinder-dry high plains between Denver and Boulder led to the record Marshall firestorm losses topping $1 billion, insurance industry researchers found this past week as they sifted through ashes an...
By Andrew Travers
Aspen Times
You can’t miss it or its message.
As you step out of the Silver Queen Gondola at 11,212 or so feet above sea level atop Aspen Mountain, you see a gondola car beside the Sundeck, on a perch above the Castle Creek Valley that is usually the most popular spot for touris...
By Jessica Seaman
The Denver Post
Becky Bolinger and the team at the Colorado Climate Center have kept watch over the dry and warm conditions that have blanketed the Front Range since the summer, knowing that they provided the perfect recipe for a wildfire.
For them, it was a matt...
By Paul Krugman
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Build Back Better — the Biden administration’s effort to create a better future for America — is resting on a political knife edge. It’s anyone’s guess whether it will become law. What we do know is that to make it through Congress, it will have to weather ...
Facing a deadline, panel considers tougher rules on oil, gas operations
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
For about five years, Von Bortz and Amy Smith have lived in rural Larimer County on property where they run a sanctuary for farm animals. The location is good: It’s close to Fort Collins and C...
By Brad Plumer and Hiroko Tabuchi
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In a nation that is deeply split along partisan lines over the pandemic response, racial equity and abortion, add this: gas stoves and furnaces.
This week New York City moved to ban gas hookups in new buildings, joining ci...
By Damien Cave
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WEE WAA, AUSTRALIA » Two years ago, the fields outside Christina Southwell’s family home near the cotton capital of Australia looked like a dusty, brown desert as drought-fueled wildfires burned to the north and south.
Last week, a...
By Bruce Schreiner and Jim Salter
Kentucky hardest hit as death toll expected to climb
The Associated Press
MAYFIELD, KY. » A monstrous tornado, carving a track that could rival the longest on record, ripped across the middle of the U.S. in a stormfront that killed dozen...
By Christopher Flavelle
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WASHINGTON » The new infrastructure law signed by President Joe Biden includes almost $50 billion to protect communities against climate change, the largest such investment in U.S. history and a recognition that the effects of warming are ou...
By Raymond Zhong
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This is a story about one of those unsung forces that quietly keep the world running. It is a story about the clockwork interconnectedness of modern civilization, about how disturbances in one part of the planet can kick up storms in another.
This...
By Ian Austen
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PRINCETON, BRITISH COLUMBIA
» With light drizzle in the air, a young woman wiped away tears as she stood on the veranda of a newly renovated gray and white house. Its toilets and other plumbing fixtures sat beside her. Most of the house’s contents we...
By Brian Melley
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES » Lightning-sparked wildfires killed thousands of giant sequoias this year, leading to a staggering two-year death toll that accounts for up to nearly a fifth of Earth’s largest trees, officials said Friday.
Fires in Sequoia National Park...
By David Williams and Chris Brown
Guest Commentary
The 2021 wildfire season continues to wreak havoc on the Western United States with more than 48,725 wildfires that have burned 6,619,632 acres across the region. These fires, in addition to devastating the states, make affected areas more...
By Alan Fram
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » A fractious House handed President Joe Biden a marquee victory Friday by approving an approximately $2 trillion social and environment bill, as Democrats cast aside disputes that for months had stalled the measure and hampered efforts to sell ...
