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SPOKANE, WASH.»Heavily protected crews in Washington state worked Saturday to destroy the first nest of so-called murder hornets discovered in the United States.
The state Agriculture Department had spent weeks searching, trapping and usi...
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ALASKA By Henry Fountain
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The Trump administration has relaunched long-delayed plans to conduct a seismic survey in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska as a prelude to drilling for oil there.
The Bureau ...
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Hotter Days; Bigger Blazes; Less Moisture As more homes and acres burn, fears mount that climate change is causing a “multi-level emergency” By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
The record-breaking forest fires burning in Colorado even as winter set...
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By Mark Udall and Jeremy Jones
Guest commentary
One of us is a former politician, an Outward Bound instructor who became a senator. The other is a professional athlete, a snowboarder who climbed and rode mountains long before going to Cap...
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By Clifford Krauss© The New York Times Co.
HOUSTON»The once mighty oil and gas industry is flailing, desperately trying to survive a pandemic that has sharply reduced demand for its products.
Most companies have cut back drilling, laid off worke...
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NEW STUDY-By Marion Renault
The Associated Press
A cross section of the medial suture, where two halves of the diabolical ironclad beetle’s elytra meet, shows the puzzle piece configuration that’s among the keys to the insect’s incredible durabi...
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By The Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D.» Native American tribes opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline once again have asked a federal judge to stop the flow of oil while the legal battle over the line’s future plays out.
The Standing Rock Sioux an...
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By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
Mark Schell’s family has farmed in Colorado since 1906 and even though he works as a certified public accountant, he hasn’t left that way of life behind.
About a year ago, Schell bought a 310-acre farm in Mead t...
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WESTERN WILDFIRES
By Matthew Brown and Camille FassettThe Associated Press
SANTA CRUZ, CALIF.»Wildfires churning out dense plumes of smoke as they scorch huge swaths of the West Coast have exposed millions of people to hazardous pollutio...
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Company striving to be first in country to capture carbon on commercial scale
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
The owner of a cement plant in Florence has started design and engineering work with the goal of making it the first such U.S. facilit...
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By Jonathan Romeo
The Durango Herald
DURANGO» A decades-long effort to restore the Colorado River cutthroat trout to the upper reaches of Hermosa Creek has been completed, resulting in the largest continuous stretch of waterway for the native fis...
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By Matthew Brown and Camille Fassett
The Associated Press
SANTA CRUZ, CALIF.»Wildfires churning out dense plumes of smoke as they scorch huge swaths of the West Coast have exposed millions of people to hazardous pollution levels, causing emergen...
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By Clara Ferreira Marques
Bloomberg Opinion
Last month, surfers on Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula began to complain of eye pain and corneal burns. Some fell ill. Dead octopus, star fish and sea urchins began to wash up on the beach. Yellow ...
Famed environmental leader and film maker, David Attenborough releases new film A Life on Our Planet, playing on Netflix, see trailer https://www.earthprotect.com/media-gallery/mediaitem/4178-a-life-on-our-planet-david-attenborough
Its on Netflix, so clearly explains how we got to ...
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GALLERY CARTS, KIOSKS, PORTABLES
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
About 40 years ago, Dan Gallery and his sister, Debbie, saw an opportunity to expand the reach of the family’s Chicago-style deli by selling food from a hot-dog cart in downtown ...
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Rob Griffith, The Associated Press
Tasmanian devils, the carnivorous marsupials whose feisty, frenzied eating habits won the animals cartoon fame have returned to mainland Australia for the first time in some 3,000 years.
“Seeing those devils re...
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By Deborah Swearingen
Daily Camera
A new report shows Boulder found success in a number of its climate initiatives, including its effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
In 2019, the city reported a 21% reduction in emissions since 2...
Prosecutions of environmental crimes have "plummeted" during the Trump administration, according to a new report from the University of Michigan law school. The first two years of the Trump administration had a 70 percent decrease in criminal prosecutions under the Clean Water Act and a decrease of ...
Shared from the 10/15/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Natalie Kitroeff
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BOQUILLA, MEXICO» The farmers armed themselves with sticks, rocks and homemade shields, ambushed hundreds of soldiers guarding a dam and seized control of one of the border region’s most important ...
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RISING CONCERNSBy Christopher Flavelle © The New York Times Co.
If rising seas cause America’s coastal housing market to dive — or, as many economists warn, when — the beginning might look a little like what’s happening in the tiny town of Bal H...
