By Susan Montoya Bryan
The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE » U.S. wildlife managers on Wednesday proposed federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken, saying its habitat across Colorado and four other states is in danger of becoming more fragmented and the effects of climate change and...
Plaintiffs in the suit call the first instance of a judge ordering an oil giant to comply with the Paris climate agreement “a turning point in history.”
By Kristoffer Tigue, Dan Gearino
May 26, 2021
In a landmark ruling being hailed by climate activists as “game-changing,” a Dutch court...
ExxonMobil has spent the last six months locked in a battle for its future, ever since a small investment firm launched a long-shot bid to reshape the company’s board of directors and steer the oil giant on a more climate-friendly path.
On Wednesday, Exxon lost, at least in part, when a majority of...
For years, the idea of turbines churning in the Pacific was dismissed as impractical. The deep water poses an array of logistical challenges, and the Navy would rather not deal with all those offshore obstacles.
But new technology and a new president determined to rapidly expand win...
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...
Daimler’s truck unit plans to replace diesel with hydrogen
By Jack Ewing
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Carmakers have been promising to scrap the internal combustion engine, and now it is the truck-makers’ turn. But the makers of giant 18-wheelers are taking a different route.
Daimler...
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...
Inside Climate News, By Georgina Gustin
May 19, 2021
In the seven years since governments and corporations promised to stop deforestation, the clear cutting of critically important tropical forests has instead increased by more than 50 percent, a new report shows,...
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...
Thousands of permits OK’d under old rules; some homeowners disillusioned
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
A new state oil and gas law that was heralded as bringing the most sweeping changes ever to better protect public health has ushered in a new era. In some cases and some places.
Colorado, a ...
By Susan Montoya Bryan
The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE » Environmental groups and scientists with two universities want U.S. wildlife managers to consider reintroducing jaguars to the American Southwest.
In a recently published paper, they say habitat destruction, highways and existing...
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...
Picture, Jane Goodall with Grant Barbeito, Founder, Earth Protect
Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her expertise on chimpanzees and her globe-spanning advocacy of environmental causes, was named Thursday as this year’s winner of the prestigious Templeton Prize, honoring individuals wh...
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 Sarah Kuta
Special to The Denver Post
Throughout her 20s, Laura Posiak-Trider wrestled with concerns about the industrial meat industry, opting to eat a mostly vegetarian diet when she could. She thought she had to choose between two stark options: eat meat and feel bad about it, or remove it f...
Nat Geo, BYMARYN MCKENNA
PUBLISHED OCTOBER 14, 2015 There’s a point of view about raising crops that you hear a lot: if we’re going to feed the nine billion people who are expected to be inhabiting this planet in the year 2050, we will need to expand and intensify the farming we do now. That m...
By Jack Ewing and Lauren Hirsch
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Private equity has a place at the table, and so do Oprah and Jay-Z. Food giants such as Nestlé are scrambling to get a foot in the door. There are implications for the climate. There are even geopolitical rumblings.
The unlikely focus of th...
In Ford factory visit, he pitches $4 trillion economic agenda
By Jim Tankersley and Neal E. Boudette
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President Joe Biden traveled to Michigan Tuesday to visit the factory where Ford will produce the first electric version of its signature F-150 pickup truck, seeking to ha...
By Lisa Friedman
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WASHINGTON » The Biden administration on Thursday moved to repeal a Trump-era regulation that it said weakened the government’s ability to curb air pollution that threatens public health and is driving climate change.
Critics said the re...
By Matthew Brown
The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT. » The Biden administration announced Tuesday it will consider a ban on new mining on large expanses of public lands in Western states to protect a struggling bird species, the greater sage grouse.
The Interior...
