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...
“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...
With 192 lasers and temperatures more than three times hotter than the center of the sun, scientists hit — at least for a fraction of a second — a key milestone on the long road toward nearly pollution-free fusion energy.
Researchers at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermo...
PALLAKKADU, SRI LANKA » Conservationists and veterinarians are warning that plastic waste in an open landfill in eastern Sri Lanka is killing elephants in the region, after two more were found dead last weekend.
About 20 elephants have died in the past eight years after consuming plastic tr...
By Neil Vigdor
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An underwater mapping project recently took an unexpected twist off the coast of Tahiti, where deep-sea explorers said last week that they had discovered a sprawling coral reef resembling a bed of roses that appeared to be largely unscathed b...
Measure introduced in 2020 after years of residents’ complaints
By Drew Costley
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES » The University Park neighborhood of Los Angeles has a lot in common with urban areas across the U.S.: A dense population with lots of businesses and housing. A cluster of car dealers...
Colorado receives help from feds for charging infrastructure as electric vehicle sales continue to grow
By John Aguilar The Denver Post
BOULDER »
With electric vehicle registrations in November eclipsing 10% of all new Colorado vehicle registrations for the first time and $57 million in f...
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 Viniece Jennings
The Conversation
When many people think of New Year’s resolutions, they brainstorm ways to improve themselves for the year ahead.
What if we expanded those aspirations to include resolutions that benefit our communities, society and the planet, too?
It might not be a typical ...
WASHINGTON » The Environmental Protection Agency is taking its first major action to address toxic wastewater from coal-burning power plants, ordering utilities to stop dumping waste into unlined storage ponds and speed up plans to close leaking or otherwise dangerous coal ash sites.
Plants in four...
Stress built up over weeks is fatiguing. Do not “push through” it.
By Dani Blum
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Nearly two years into a drudging, dragging pandemic, each crumb of news about the Omicron variant can feel like too much to process.
Burnout, the psychological term for an all-consuming exhau...
By Frank Jordans
The Associated Press
BERLIN » Germany on Friday shut down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation, a year before the country draws the final curtain on its decadeslong use of atomic power.
The decision to phase out nuclear power and shift from fossil fuels to ren...
By Matthew Brown The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT. » Twenty of Yellowstone National Park’s renowned gray wolves roamed from the park and were shot by hunters in recent months — the most killed by hunting in a single season since the predators were reintroduced to the region more t...
By Suman Naishadham and Michael Phillis
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » The Biden administration took steps Thursday aimed at reducing lead in drinking water, announcing plans to release $2.9 billion in infrastructure bill funds next year for lead pipe removal and to impose stric...
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 ...
By Kathleen Ronayne
The Associated Press
DAVIS, CALIF. » Banana peels, chicken bones and leftover veggies won’t have a place in California trash cans under the nation’s largest mandatory residential food waste recycling program that’s set to take effect in January.
The effort is designed ...
By Drew Costley
The Associated Press
Researchers say that thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars have been saved in the United States by recent reductions in emissions from vehicles.
Harvard University researchers who study the environment and public health examine...
By Livia Albeck-Ripka
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PACIFIC GROVE, CALIF. » On a recent Sunday, I found myself among a crowd of hushed humans in a eucalyptus grove near Monterey, our necks craned toward the tree canopy.
Above us, thousands of Western monarch butterflies were clustered on branc...
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...
