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By Elise Schmelzer
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Coloradans might have to say goodbye to verdant green medians full of grass if state lawmakers succeed in a plan to save water b...
  
The short-term crisis averted; here’s what’s at stake in negotiations for its long-term future

By Elise Schmelzer
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An immediate crisis on the Colorado River has been averted, but negotiators now must turn their attention to the next pro...
CRITICAL MINERALS
The controversy about the industrialized extraction of seabed minerals was put to rest for the time being as the governing council of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) agreed to take two more years to finalize mining regulations.
The ISA, established by the U.N. as an ...
NEW LAW ABOUT TO KICK IN
By Suzie Romig
Pilot & Today
Owners of retail businesses and food and drink establishments likely are carefully considering their orders for disposable containers and carryout bags this fall as a statewide ordinance will kick in Jan. 1 to ban carryout plastic bags and...
Environmental regulators announced new grants to help researchers investigate how harmful PFAS affect plants and animals in agricultural environments.
By Liza Gross
October 30, 2023
The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Thursday $8 million in new research funding t...
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AIR POLLUTION
Nonprofits struggle to roll out programs
One turned down a $500,000 EPA grant, calling rules burdensome
By Noelle Phillips
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The Black Parents United Foundation learned in late 2022 that it would receive nearly $475,00...
One of longest-running Superfund sites in Colorado still has no radioactive waste cleanup plan
By Elise Schmelzer
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CAÑON CITY>> Jeri Fry was 6 years old when she toured the uranium mill outside town where he...
Oregon will provide up to 10 animals this winter, Parks and Wildlife says
By Elise Schmelzer
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Oregon will provide the first gray wolves for Colorado’s voter-mandated reintroduction of the species, wildlife officials announced Friday after a months-long search for a state ...
By Christina Larson
The Associated Press
The world’s frogs, salamanders, newts and other amphibians remain in serious trouble.
A new global assessment has found that 41% of amphibian species that scientists have studied are threatened with extinction, meaning they are either vulne...
By Cara Buckley
The New York Times
One ship was pulled across the sea with the help of an enormous sail that looked as if it belonged to a kite-surfing giant. Another navigated the oceans between China and Brazil this summer with steel and composi...
Advocates to pursue ballot initiative on management of mountain lions, bobcats
By Elise Schmelzer
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Three years after a successful ballot initiative push to reintroduce wolves, wildlife advocates will try again to put decisions about managing Colorado’s carnivores in the h...
SUMMER OF RECORDS
By Delger Erdenesanaa
The New York Times
Temperature records continue to topple. Last month was the planet’s warmest August in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 174-year record, agency officials said Thursday. The global surface temperature for the mont...
By Maddie Burakoff
The Associated Press
NEW YORK>> Fall is in the air — officially.
The equinox arrives on Saturday, marking the start of the fall season for the Northern Hemisphere.
But what does that actually mean? Here’s what to know about how we split up the year using the Earth’s orbi...
  
By Delger Erdenesanaa and Noah Weiland
The New York Times
On the heels of an exceptionally fiery and smoky summer, two new reports released Wednesday confirmed what many Americans have been already seeing and breathing.
Smoke from increasingly frequent and...
By Coral Davenport
The New York Times
If President Joe Biden wins a second term, his climate policies would take aim at steel and cement plants, factories and oil refineries — heavily polluting industries that have never before had to rein in their heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
New controls on ...
Utility says it’s working with installers, governments to meet solar power demand
By Judith Kohler
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People who lost their homes in the 2021 Marshall fire, Colorado’s costliest at $2 billion in property damage, have spent much time going back and forth with insurance ...
By Nicholas Kristof
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World leaders are gathering this week at the United Nations and proclaim their passion for ending poverty and hunger around the globe. This week, approximately 90,000 children under the age of 5 will die, mostly of preventable causes.
As leaders discus...
By Somini Sengupta
The New York Times
MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash.>> Once, there were 29. Now at least one is gone, maybe three. Those that remain are almost half the size they used to be. Mount Rainier is losing its glaciers. That is all the more striking as it is the most glacier-cov...
By Edith M. Lederer
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS>> The commitments were far-reaching and ambitious. Among them: End extreme poverty and hunger. Ensure every child on Earth gets a quality secondary education. Achieve gender equality. Make significant inroads in tackling climate change....
$1 billion or more events
The deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia’s watery storm surge helped push the United States to a record for the number of weather disasters that cost $1 billion or more. And there’s still four months to go on what’s looking more like a calendar of calamities.
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