CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGE: GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO AMPLIFY WORLD’S BUSINESS, STATE AND CITY PURCHASING POWER IN LARGE-SCALE PUSH FOR ZERO EMISSION VEHICLE FUTURE
The scale of opportunity is bigger than we’ve ever seen before as states and regions, cities, businesses and NGOs unite – bringing together g...
Shared from the 2018-07-08 The Denver Post eEdition The U.S. diet is a climate disaster
A new study suggests four easy fixes By Caitlin Dewey
The Washington Post If your household is anything like the American average, your diet generates lots of greenhouse gas emissions: roughly th...
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CALLS TO CUT WASTE GROW LOUDER
Starbucks ditching plastic straws By Candice Choi he Associated Press
NEW YORK» Starbucks will eliminate plastic straws from all of its locations within two years, the coffee chain announced Monda...
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RIO GRANDE
Thirst for water clouds the future
By Bruce Finley The Denver Post

Alfalfa hay grower Cleave Simpson, who serves as general manager of the Rio Grande Water Conservation District, decided not to plant as much of the...
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MIGRANTS
Crisis is testing world’s resources
The unprecedented global displacement is the new normal, a U.N. report says.
By David Nakamura
The Washington Post
In the wake of an international uproar over the Trump administratio...
One of every three bites of food eaten worldwide depends on pollinators, especially bees, for a successful harvest. And in the past several months, a scramble in California’s almond groves has given the world a taste of what may lie in store for food production if the widespread — and still puzzling...
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CLIMATE CHANGE
“A different world” with global warming
By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press
David Goldman, The Associated Press
SALIDA» We were warned. ¶ On June 23, 1988, a sultry day in Washington, James Hansen told Congre...
Vancouver city council this week targeted single-use plastic items, such as straws, but researchers wonder why the straw has been singled out when there are hundreds of plastic items making their way into the environment.Researchers have cited balloons, food containers, plastic cutlery and piec...
A demoralized workforce watching as its agency is dismantled by the very people charged to lead it: That is the grim state of affairs depicted by John J. O’Grady, a longtime employee in the Chicago field office of the Environmental Protection Agency, which is tasked with protecting the nation’s air ...
ANTARCTICA
Ice sheet in rapid melt since 1992
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
Shared from the 2018-06-14 The Denver Post eEdition
This photograph, taken in 2010, shows crevasses near the edge of Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica. Ian Joughin, University of Washing...
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EPA changes could cause 80,000 more deaths per decade
By Eric Roston
Bloomberg
Two Harvard social scientists, writing an opinion column in a prominent medical journal, have put forward “an extremely conservative estimate” that some 80,...
Efforts to clean famous monument have been slow, mostly ineffective
By Shashank Bengali
Los Angeles Times AGRA, INDIA» India’s most famous poet, Rabindranath Tagore, once wrote that the Taj Mahal stood on the banks of the river Yamuna “like a teardrop suspended on the cheek of time.”
One won...
By JUSTIN WORLAND Updated: May 30, 2018 2:56 PM ET time.com
For eight years, climate change activists lobbied President Obama to address global warming with everything from stronger regulations on greenhouse gases to rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline. The efforts often — if not always — succeeded....
EVAN HALPER LA TIMES
MAY 29, 2018 | 3:00 AM
At a time when acts of defiance against the Trump administration are routine in Sacramento, the rebuke that breezed through the California Assembly this month still came as a jolt. Even Trump loyalists in the chamber joined in.
The message t...
Forecasters predict a 35 percent chance of an above-normal season, a 40 percent chance of a near-normal season, and a 25 percent chance of a below-normal season for the upcoming hurricane season, which extends from June 1 to November 30.
“With the advances made in hardware and computing over the co...
The federal government’s push to open some of Colorado’s most pristine and delicate high country — near two sacred Navajo mountains and touching the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness — to oil and gas drilling has hit turbulence.
The Environmental Protection Agency has asked the Bureau of Land Management ...
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Poachers Are Killing Asian Elephants for Their Skin
BY JUSTINE E. HAUSHEER
MAY 21, 2018 Follow Justine
Working elephants socialize in a logging camp in northern Myanmar. Photo © Justine E. Hausheer / The Nature Conservancy
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Streamflow in the West
By Robert Harris, Senior Staff Attorney | May 8th, 2018
The healthiest flowing rivers in the West have one thing in common: a robust streamflow sufficient to meet all of the diverse uses of rivers. Flowing rivers sustain wetlands, provid...
