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The New York Times
We are experiencing the hottest days in history. Heat waves have blanketed the Northern Hemisphere this week, with temperatures reaching 100 degrees Fahrenheit on three continents.
Extreme heat can be deadly for anyone, but olde...
Vegans produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions, research says Oxford research says vegans produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions
By Cara Buckley
The New York Times
People who follow a plant-based diet account for 75% fewer greenhouse gas emissions than those who eat more than 3.5 ounces of meat a ...
It’s the 19th straight day of hitting that high temperature
Paramedics assist Alex Guerrero, who suffered heatstroke, at his family’s home in Phoenix on Saturday. Across North America, Europe and Asia, hundreds of millions of people have been endur...
By Jane Margolies
The New York Times
At its former headquarters in eastern Pennsylvania, Air Products had a neatly manicured lawn and boxwood hedges. But when the industrial gases company moved to nearby Allentown recently and erected a new office building, it tried something different.
Rather th...
Geodesic domes, other resilient designs are gaining new attention
By Christopher Flavelle
The New York Times
John duSaint, a retired software engineer, recently bought property near Bishop, Calif., in a rugged valley east of the Sierra Nevada. The area is at risk for wildfires, severe daytime hea...
By Jim Robbins
The New York Times
PABLO, Mont.>> In the mountain streams of southern British Columbia and northern Montana, a rugged part of the world, fish with misshapen skulls and twisted spines have been caught over the years.
Many scientists attribute the malformed creatures and declin...
  
ENVIRONMENT

By Hiroko Tabuchi
The New York Times
Natural gas, long seen as a cleaner alternative to coal and an important tool in the fight to slow global warming, can be just as harmful to the climate, a new study has concluded, unless companies can al...
By Monika Pronczuk and Catrin Einhorn
The New York Times
European lawmakers, after an unexpectedly bitter political battle, approved a bill Wednesday that would require European Union countries to restore 20% of all degraded nature areas within their borders on land and at sea.
The measur...
By Mike Ives
The New York Times
For years, meals at the summer sun dance ceremonies on the Eastern Shoshone Tribe’s lands in Wyoming were missing something that was once a staple of the sacred rituals.
There was no presence of homegrown bison, an animal central to the spiritual customs and belief...
By Emily Anthes
The New York Times
The United States is home to an enormous array of animal industries — including industrial agriculture, fur farming and the exotic pet trade — that pose a significant risk of creating infectious disease outbreaks in humans, according to a new report by experts at...
Increased moisture this year does not fix state’s water woes
By Elise Schmelzer
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Colorado is drought-free for the first time since 2019 — a stark change from a year ago, when 98% of the state was under drought conditions.
A winter filled with heavy snow and a cooler, wet...
By Eric Asimov
The New York Times
Robert Mondavi paved the way for California’s Napa Valley to take a place among the leading wine regions of the world and raised the bar for all American producers.
By the force of his charismatic personality, Mondavi, a hard-driving visionary who established the...
  
By J. David Goodman
The New York Times
Strafed by powerful storms and superheated by a dome of hot air, Texas has been enduring a dangerous early heat wave this week that has broken temperature records and strained the state’s independent power grid.
But t...
By Jim Garcia
Guest Commentary
As we consider all the ways to make Denver a more equitable home for all our neighbors, there’s likely an issue that hasn’t yet made everyone’s list, though it impacts thousands each summer.
The issue is increasing temperatures and a disparate lack of access to effi...
Federal officials praise proposal, though will it save enough water?
By Conrad Swanson
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All seven states in the Colorado River Basin now agree on an apparent short-term breakthrough in negotiations to save water from their drying region and it’s enough of a consensus for fe...
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo welcomed a pair of Amur leopard cubs last Wednesday, adding to the population of one of the most endangered species in the world.
Amur leopards have been on the list of critically endangered animals since 1996 and are the rarest of big cat species, with only 100 or so estimate...
By Conrad Swanson
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You might have felt the symptoms before: A pit in your stomach, panic, existential dread, hopelessness, disenfranchisement, frustration and even anger.
Greenhouse gases are seeping into the atmosphere, warming the planet. Polar ice caps are melting, raisi...
May 2 (Reuters) - Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed into law on Tuesday a bill barring state officials from investing public money to promote environmental, social and governance goals, and prohibiting ESG bond sales.The bill is one of the furthest-reaching efforts yet by U.S. Republicans against...
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| The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: April 21, 2023 at 12:51 p.m. | UPDATED: April 21, 2023 at 5:25 p.m.
Two natural gas processors doing business in Colorado agreed this week to multi-million dollar settlements with the federal government over continuous viol...
This year, we rally behind the theme “Invest In Our Planet”, which highlights the importance of dedicating our time, resources, and energy to solving climate change and other environmental issues. Investing in our planet is necessary to protect it and the best way to pave a path towards a prosperous...
