Youth Strike 4 Climate’s global protest on March 15 by an estimated one million students demonstrating against inaction on climate change marks a new generation gap issue. A larger share of youth in 26 countries are concerned about climate change compared to people over 50, according to a Pew s...
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WASHINGTON» The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday banned consumer use of a popular but deadly paint stripper but stopped short of also banning commercial use of the product by tradespeople.
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler signed t...
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Blacks, Hispanics breathe more pollution than they make
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON» African-Americans and Hispanics breathe in far more deadly air pollution than they are responsible for making, a new study said.
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CHEMICALS IN WATER
Costs slow reform
Pentagon tells House committee that addressing toxic compounds would cost $2 billion for DOD
By Ellen Knickmeyer
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON» Cleaning up and protecting U.S. drinking water from a class of...
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SCIENTISTS WARN NEW BRAZIL PRESIDENT MAY SMOTHER RAINFOREST. SAO PAULO » Scientists warn that Brazil’s president-elect could push the Amazon rainforest past its tipping point — with severe consequences for global climate and rainfall.
Jair Bolsonaro, who takes office Jan. 1, claims a mand...
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FIRE COSTS LIKELY IN BILLIONS.PARADISE, CALIF. » Costs associated with a deadly Northern California wildfire will likely be in the billions, Zinke on Monday.
Zinke, who was back in the town of Paradise on Monday, said he has never witnessed such devastation. The Camp Fire killed...
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Editorial
If steps aren’t taken soon to combat climate change, there may be no tomorrow
This editorial was written by The Washington Post.
If anything, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has a habit of understatement. The U.N....
The Earth's climate has changed throughout history. Just in the last 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat, with the abrupt end of the last ice age about 7,000 years ago marking the beginning of the modern climate era — and of human civilization. M...
Hanukkah is over, Christmas is right around the corner, and the calendar is about to flip a digit to bring us into 2019. Which means it’s time for Sierra magazine’s annual roundup of the most important environmental stories of the past year.
“Most important” doesn’t necessarily mean...
A new survey finds that the region has contributed almost an inch to rising seas since 1971.
By Chris Mooney
A new scientific survey has found that the glaciers of the Arctic are the world’s biggest contributors to rising seas, shedding ice at an accelerating rate that now adds well over...
I was recently asked to speak about climate change communication at a large gathering of geoscientists. How do we change minds and move beyond political polarization? I know what doesn’t work: more data. Think of your average member of the general public as Reviewer 2: he’s made up his mind, he’s co...
At 97,620 acres, the Woolsey Fire is now among the largest wildfires to have ever swept through the LA area.
It is the “largest fire on record,” Los Angeles County Fire Chief Daryl Osby said Tuesday, pointing out that the blaze is now roughly the size of Denver.
In terms of size, the Woolsey ...
With thick acrid smoke being swept into the Bay Area from the Camp Fire nearly 200 miles to the northeast, residents from Monterey to Napa are getting a taste -literally – of what residents in smog-choked cities like Beijing have been choking on for years now.
And while it feels a bit shameful to c...
The Trump administration's top environmental official for the Southeast was arrested Thursday on criminal ethics charges in Alabama reported to be related to a scheme to help a coal company avoid paying for a costly toxic waste cleanup.
Trey Glenn, 47, was briefly booked into a county jail in Birmi...
The Open Forum
Letters to the Editor
Jim Miller, Arvada
Prop 112 effort sends clear message to legislators
Re: “Drilling setbacks fall short,” Nov. 7 news story
Wake up politicians! Your constituents care about the environment.
We are horrified by what the world’s leading scientists an...
BY ADELE PETERS4 MINUTE READ Fast Company
In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the massive Ocean Cleanup device is currently beginning its first attempt to fish plastic trash out of the sea. It’s a difficult challenge, but the systemic challenge is significantly larger: Every minute, the equiv...
More protection: U.N. says Earth’s ozone layer is healing
“I don’t think we can do a victory lap until 2060,” one scientist warns. By SETH BORENSTEIN | The Associated Press
November 5, 2018 at 11:13 pm WASHINGTON — Earth’s protective ozone layer is finally healing from damage caused by a...
The Denver Post, 11-7-18 Hey, take a gander at your kitchen wastebasket and see all the
money in there.
Statistics come in from several directions to show how much food we regularly waste
(closer-to-the-truth verbs would be “toss” or “throw out”).
In 2015, the last year for which it offe...
Today is the day you get to do a powerful thing, use your vote to support candidates at all levels who support
clean energy, recycling, public transport, preservation of wild spaces and open spaces, clean water.
Do this now if you have not, people rising is a main action that will lead...
