CO, State has 7th highest projected increase in properties that will need to add insurance
By Aldo Svaldi The Denver Post
Colorado and other mountain states don’t just face a much higher risk of wildfires in the years ahead, but also of flooding, which could hit more homeowners directly in...
Biden urged to set climate goals
Businesses, investors ask for big cut to emissions by 2030 By Matthew Daly The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » More than 300 businesses and investors — including such giants as Apple, Google, Microsoft and Coca-Cola — are calling on the Biden administration to set an...
By Mary Williams Walsh
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A deep freeze in February left Texas with billions of dollars in damage from cascading power failures that stranded residents in their dark and flooded homes. And insurance companies are hoping they can pass the bill on — just as they did whe...
By Matthew Brown The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT. » Rainstorms grew more erratic and droughts much longer across most of the U.S. West over the past half century as climate change warmed the planet, according to a sweeping government study released Tuesday that concludes the situation is w...
By Somini Sengupta
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How does a country deal with climate disasters when it is drowning in debt? Not very well, it turns out. Especially not when a pandemic clobbers its economy.
Take Belize, Fiji and Mozambique. Vastly different countries, they are among do...
By Ian Silverii
Columnist for The Denver Post
Colorado is a national leader in renewable energy and fighting human-caused climate change.
In 2004, clean energy advocates and environmentalists took Amendment 37 to the ballot, establishing a 10% renewable energy standard, and won.
The amen...
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WASHGINTON » President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan represents an enormous effort to protect Americans from climate change, but it sidesteps one of the most immediate and wrenching dilemmas: Deciding not just where to spend more m...
Action to protect people and their homes lags
By Michael Taylor Reuters March 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -
Australia, now battling its worst floods in more than half a century, has failed to adapt fast enough to the growing threats it faces from the impacts of climate change, with its people ...
By Nicholas Kristof
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The Rev. Rick Joyner is a famous evangelical leader who has called on Christians to arm themselves for an inevitable civil war against liberals, whom he suggests are allies of the devil.
But this is the awkward part: His five children would be on the o...
By Damien Cave
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WINDSOR, AUSTRALIA »
Kelly Miller stood in her doorway Monday, watching the water rise to within a few inches of the century- old home where she runs an alternative medicine business. The bridge nearby had already gone under in some of Austr...
Shared by The Denver Post, By Harrison Raine Writers on the Range
For the 2021 fire season, the writing is on the wall. The West, despite a few days of intense winter, is far drier than it was leading up to last year’s record-breaking fires.
As a hotshot crewmember, the reality of what’s to c...
Earth Day 2021 5 Top Stories on Environment in 2021
1. COP 26The 26th COP, or the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties, will be held in Glasgow, UK this November. It will see a gathering of world leaders to convene on the most pressing climate change issues. Most importantly, COP may h...
By Hope Yen and Tom Krisher
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » A coalition of automakers has told the Biden administration it would agree to raise mileage standards to reduce tailpipe emissions but with tradeoffs and at rates lower than those brokered by California with five other car manufacturers...
Hydrogen has long been hailed as a potentially revolutionary alternative to fossil fuels, but high costs have been problematic. Now, “low carbon hydrogen” is back on the table.
By Nathalie Thomas, David Sheppard, Neil Hume, Financial Times
March 17, 2021Inside Clima...
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For the planet, the year without tourists was a curse and a blessing.
With flights canceled, cruise ships mothballed and vacations largely scrapped, carbon emissions plummeted. Wildlife that usually kept a low profile amid a crush of tourists in va...
By Bruce Finley The Denver Post
Federal forest firefighter Ben McLane got a visceral feel for the West’s intensifying wildfire predicament when his 20-man Hotshot crew rolled into Colorado last summer and faced the lightning-sparked Pine Gulch blaze — flames racing across bone-dry land and,...
As the Biden administration begins the daunting job of rebuilding U.S. climate policy, it has gotten help from an unexpected, and perhaps unlikely, source—the federal courts.
In Biden’s first few weeks in office, federal judges scrapped the Trump administration’s weak power plant pol...
By Hannah Levitt Bloomberg News
Wells Fargo & Co. joined rivals in pledging to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades. The fourth largest U.S. lender said Monday it aims to reach that goal, which includes its financed emissions, by 2050. It will also deploy $500 bi...
Demise of Keystone XL igniting rush to ship oil-sands crude by rail By Robert Tuttle Bloomberg News
President Joe Biden’s decision to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline is sparking renewed interest in shipping Canadian oilsands crude by rail, and that comes with its own environmental risks.
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By Bob Berwyn February 25, 2021 Inside Climate News
The change in the main ocean heat pump could bring more heat waves to Europe, increase sea level rise in North America and force fish to move farther north.
Since the end of the last ice age, a swirling system of ocean-spanning curre...
