The Denver Post August 7, 2021
By Anders F. Fremstad
Guest Commentary
Many of us have publicly supported this position before. Why are we doing so again now? Global climate change has reached crisis status, requiring immediate national action. President Joe Biden has called fo...
An aircraft drops water during a wildfire Thursday in the Kryoneri area of Athens, Greece. Fires also plagued Turkey’s southern coast for a ninth day Thursday, forcing thousands of people to evacuate by land and sea overnight. Hundreds of square miles of forest burned as more than 180 fires blazed a...
By Christopher Flavelle
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The Biden administration Thursday announced a record injection of money to help communities gird against the effects of climate change, as disasters continue to pummel the United States.
The new funds — $3.5 billion in grants to sta...
By The Associated Press
GREENVILLE, CALIF. » The state’s largest wildfire continued to grow Wednesday while thousands of firefighters prepared for a tougher fight as dangerous weather returns.
A red flag warning was issued through Thursday because of hot, bone-dry conditions with w...
Mudslides stranded more than 100 people overnight-closure of highway from mud slides continues
By Noelle Phillips
The Denver Post
Interstate 70 through Glenwood Canyon is expected to remain closed through the weekend after a fast-moving storm blew through the area, causing flash floods and ...
By Denise Chow
For decades, Earth’s energy system has been out of whack.
Stability in Earth's climate hinges on a delicate balance between the amount of energy the planet absorbs from the sun and the amount of energy Earth emits back into space. But that equilibrium has been thrown off in rec...
By Shelly Bradbury
The Denver Post
It’s a record-breaking scorcher, Denver.
Afternoon temperatures soared to 100 degrees Wednesday, shattering the previous daily high record for July 28. That record was set July 28, 1876 — just days before Colorado became a state.
The thermometers topped out at ...
By Maureen Dowd
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Holy smokes.
It feels like we are living through the first vertiginous 15 minutes of a disaster movie, maybe one called “The Day After Tomorrow Was Yesterday.”
Heat waves are getting hotter. Forests are ablaze. Floods are obliterating...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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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 ...
By Henry Fountain
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The extraordinary heat wave that scorched the Pacific Northwest last week almost certainly would not have occurred without global warming, an international team of climate researchers said Wednesday.
Temperatures were so extreme — includi...
By Simon Romero
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PA’AUILO, HAWAII » The blaze first swept across parched fields of guinea grass. Then the flames got so close to Emma-Lei Gerrish’s house that she feared for her life.
“I was terrified it was going to jump the gulch,” said Gerrish, 26, whose Quake...
By Jim Morris and Nicholas K. Geranios
The Associated Press
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA » The grim toll of the historic heat wave in the Pacific Northwest became more apparent as authorities in Canada, Oregon and Washington state said Wednesday they were investigating hundreds of...
