By Ellen Knickmeyer
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » After talking the climate talk at U.N. negotiations in Scotland, the Biden administration now tests whether a divided United States can walk the climate walk and push a massive investment for a new era of clean energy through th...
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 a...
NOVEMBER 17, 2021 | 1:00 PM
Why two Nos may still make a Yes.
There are (at least) two ways to see the final days of the UN’s COP 26 climate conference and the Glasgow Climate Pact it produced.
Was it yet another example of the developed world turning a blind eye to the very real suffering of dev...
Activists have filed a complaint with the UN’s Human Rights Council, saying member nations have supported unsustainable population growth that is dangerously warming the planet.By Elena Shao
November 16, 2021
Cassie King grew up in San Diego, the daughter of loving parents, and she’d wante...
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
Colorado isn’t predicted to fall as drastically short of Gov. Jared Polis’ goals for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions as initially thought, according to a new report analyzing bills passed in the General Assembly’s 2021 session.
The report released Monday...
Some countries express disappointment on the final climate pact but say it’s better than nothing.
By Seth Borenstein and Frank Jordans The Associated Press
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND » Almost 200 nations accepted a compromise deal Saturday aimed at keeping a key global warming target alive, but it con...
By Sylvia Hui
The Associated Press
FAIRBOURNE, WALES » Like many others who came to Fairbourne, Stuart Eves decided the coastal village in northern Wales would be home for life when he moved here 26 years ago. He fell in love with the peaceful, slow pace of small village ...
NYT, Nov, 9, 2021
By Thomas L. Friedman
Opinion Columnist
I spent last week talking to all sorts of people gathered for the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, and it left me with profoundly mixed emotions.
Having been to most of the climate summits since Bali in 2007, I can tell you this one...
By Katie Langford Daily Camera
University of Colorado Boulder and United Nations Human Rights will cohost the inaugural Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit on campus next fall, bringing international leaders together in Boulder to address climate change as a human rights crisis.
While...
By Joe Neguse and Dan Gibbs
Guest Commentary
Last year’s record-setting wildfire season in Colorado was a wake-up call. The Cameron Peak and East Troublesome Fires, which burned nearly 400,000 acres combined, threatened homes, businesses, wildlife, and local water supplies.
In the wake of these f...
By Ellen Knickmeyer
The Associated Press
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND » John Kerry is everywhere and on the move at a fateful U.N. climate summit.
President Joe Biden’s envoy at the talks in Glasgow, Scotland, Kerry steams from side talks with U.S. rivals China and Russia that painstakingl...
Some have been “putting pressure on our administrators to have the campus do the right things”
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Colorado State University student Kaydee Barker rides buses or her bicycle for transport, buys only used clothing, and eats vegetarian local food — aligni...
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
While conducting research in Greenland, ice scientist Twila Moon was struck this summer by what climate change has doomed Earth to lose and what could still be saved.
The Arctic is warming three times faster than the rest of the planet and is on suc...
By Brad Plumer and Lisa Friedman
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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND »
More than 40 countries pledged to phase out coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, in a deal announced Thursday at the United Nations climate summit that prompted Alok Sharma, the head of the conference, to p...
Some have been “putting pressure on our administrators to have the campus do the right things”
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Colorado State University student Kaydee Barker rides buses or her bicycle for transport, buys only used clothing, and eats vegetarian local food — aligning her a...
By Frank Jordans and Jill Lawless
The Associated Press
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND » World leaders promised to protect Earth’s forests, cut methane emissions and help South Africa wean itself off coal at the U.N. climate summit Tuesday — part of a flurry of deals intended to avert catastrophic globa...
By Matthew Daly
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » The Biden administration on Tuesday launched a wide-ranging plan to reduce methane emissions, targeting a potent greenhouse gas that contributes significantly to global warming and packs a stronger short-term punch than even carbon dioxide.
The pl...
By Matthew Brown
The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT. » The Biden administration is planning to sell oil and gas leases on huge tracts of public land in the U.S. West, despite the Interior Department’s conclusion that doing so could cost society billions of dollars in climate change impacts, accor...
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
Having pledged to produce carbon- free electricity by 2050, Xcel Energy has a new goal of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions from its natural gas operations in the same timeframe.
Xcel Energy, the largest electric utility in Colorado, said...
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND »
World leaders turned up the heat and resorted to end-of-the-world rhetoric Monday in an attempt to bring new urgency to sputtering international climate negotiations.
The metaphors were dramatic and mixed at the start of the t...
