Inside the battle to save Rocky Mountain National Park and Estes Park during last year’s wildfires
By John Meyer The Denver Post
Eight months have passed since Rocky Mountain National Park teetered on the brink of catastrophe due to the devastating East Troublesome wildfire. Burn scars on the...
WorldwidBy Judy Fahys, Bob Berwyn
The latest in a seemingly endless series of heat waves around the world hit the Pacific Northwest last weekend and will continue through the week, showing that even regions with cool coastlines and lush forests cannot avoid the blistering extremes of global warming...
By Henry Fountain
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The West this year is locked in an extreme drought that is one of the worst on record. But for a large part of the region, the only thing that makes this year different is the severity of the conditions. Much of the Southwest is in the throes of a...
By Mark Chediak, Naureen S. Malif and Will Wade
Bloomberg News
Heat waves in Texas and California are threatening to push electrical grids to the brink, prompting the specter of blackouts yet again in the two most populous U.S. states.
Texas officials are asking customers to conserve power as gen...
By Nadja Popovich
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An intense drought is gripping the American West. Extreme conditions are more widespread than at any point in at least 20 years, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, the government’s official droughttracking service. And the hott...
By Deborah Swearingen
Boulder Daily Camera
In light of the urgency of climate change, Boulder City Council is on board with city staff’s plans to adopt more aggressive climate goals and targets and to shift the way the city thinks about its overall approach.
In addition to adjusting its goals, Bo...
By Michael Brune
Guest Commentary
Last year, Coloradans suffered in the face of an exceptionally dry summer that birthed the worst fires in the state’s history.
For millennia, natural wildfires have played a role in balancing the landscape, but climate change has created the condi...
Article from: Denver Post - June 11, 2021
THE OPEN FORUM
Dan Danbom, Denver
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that carbon dioxide levels were above 419 parts per million in May, never this high in our lifetimes.
Climate scientists t...
By Andrew Selsky The Associated Press
SALEM, ORE. » Wearing soot-smudged, fire-resistant clothing and helmets, several wildland firefighters armed with hoes moved through a stand of ponderosa pines as flames tore through the underbrush.
The firefighters weren’t there to extinguish the fire. T...
More than one-third of the world’s heat deaths each year are due directly to global warming, according to the latest study to calculate the human cost of climate change.
But scientists say that’s only a sliver of climate’s overall toll — even more people die from other extreme weather amplified by ...
Biden doubles funding to prepare for natural disasters, keeping climate change in focus
Biden announced a 100% increase in funding during a visit to FEMA on Monday.
ByLibby Cathey
May 24, 2021, 12:27 PM
President Joe Biden announced he's directing $1 billion into natural disaster mitigation reso...
By DANICA KIRKA
May 21, 2021
LONDON (AP) — The pledges were part of a wide-ranging communique issued by Group of Seven environment ministers after a two-day virtual meeting hosted by the U.K., which holds the G-7’s rotating presidency. At the heart of the document is a commitment to limit glo...
By Zoe Schlanger
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For more than a century, the core mission of the National Park Service has been preserving the natural heritage of the United States. But now, as the planet warms, transforming ecosystems, the agency is conceding that its traditional goal of absolute conse...
By Matt Singh
Bloomberg Opinion
When U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson told President Biden’s Earth Day summit that protecting the environment was not “some expensive, politically correct, green act of bunny hugging,” supporters laughed, opponents were outraged and Greta Thunberg c...
By Henry Fountain
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ALBUQUERQUE » This year, New Mexican officials have a message for farmers who depend on irrigation water from the Rio Grande and other rivers: Unless you absolutely have to plant this year, don’t.
Years of warming temperatures, a failed rainy season last...
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
RED FEATHER LAKES » Wind blowing down from burned forests caressed a knoll where leaders from the Biden administration and Congress sat in camp chairs Friday, looking over charts showing massive new fire breaks along Colorado’s Front Range, mobilizing to combat casc...
By Henry Fountain
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Scientists Wednesday reported another reason the world should sharply rein in global warming: Doing so would likely cut in half the current projected amount of sea level rise from the melting of ice this century.
In a study that averaged results ...
By Matthew Daly The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » In the first Biden administration rule aimed at combating climate change, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to phase down production and use of hydrofluorocarbons, highly potent greenhouse gases commonly used in...
The Denver Post
Gov. Jared Polis published a comprehensive roadmap, two years in the making, for Colorado to rapidly and significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Now he should support the legislation that will make sure we follow his plan.
Senate Bill 200 is not Colorado’s version of t...
By Coral Davenport
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WASHINGTON » The Senate voted Wednesday to effectively reinstate an Obama-era regulation designed to clamp down on emissions of methane — a powerful, climate- warming pollutant that will have to be controlled to meet President J...
