By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
The coelacanth — a giant weird fish still around from dinosaur times — can live for 100 years, a new study found.
These slow-moving, people-sized fish of the deep, nicknamed a “living fossil,” are the opposite of the live-fast, die-young mantra. The...
In 2019 Audubon’s Survival by Degrees report sounded a stark warning: Without meaningful action to mitigate the impacts of climate change, two-thirds of North American bird species are at risk of extinction. This Natural Climate Solutions Report provides a scientific framework to help us address thi...
By Shelly Bradbury
The Denver Post
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Despite federal protections, wild horses across the West are ending up in slaughterhouses under a new Bureau of Land Management adoption program, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the Dist...
By Michael R. Strain
Bloomberg Opinion
Even if negotiators in Washington reach an agreement on a package to improve the nation’s infrastructure, paying for it will prove a major obstacle. This week, a bipartisan group of 10 moderate senators has advanced a $1.2 trillion, eight-year spendin...
Returnable bottles cut down on waste, and combat climate change
By Eric Asimov © The New York Times Co.
Last month, a 24,000-liter hermetically sealed plastic container, or flexitank, carrying organically grown pinot grigio from Sicily arrived in a cargo container at Filling Station East, a w...
By Bruce Finley The Denver Post
Metro Denver and Fort Collins rank increasingly high on a notorious list that comes out each year — the worst U.S. cities for air pollution.
Only the Los Angeles area and parts of California’s Central Valley now consistently outperform Colorado’s Front Range ci...
By Annie Mehl
Boulder Daily Camera
Boulder recently began a new subscription-based “Green Bag Giveaway” program to provide businesses with a free supply of compostable garbage bin liners each month for a year.
The city recognized the added expense compostable bags can pose for businesses and bega...
By Matthew Daly The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » More than half the cosmetics sold in the United States and Canada are awash with a toxic industrial compound associated with serious health conditions, including cancer and reduced birth weight, according to a new study.
Researchers at the Uni...
Denver’s Keystone Tower gets grants from U.S. to develop offshore projects
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
A Denver company has tapped a construction technique used in the oil and gas industry to make bigger and cheaper wind-turbine towers faster, setting the stage to help expand...
By Mark Chediak, Naureen S. Malif and Will Wade
Bloomberg News
Heat waves in Texas and California are threatening to push electrical grids to the brink, prompting the specter of blackouts yet again in the two most populous U.S. states.
Texas officials are asking customers to conserve power as gen...
By Nadja Popovich
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An intense drought is gripping the American West. Extreme conditions are more widespread than at any point in at least 20 years, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, the government’s official droughttracking service. And the hott...
By Deborah Swearingen
Boulder Daily Camera
In light of the urgency of climate change, Boulder City Council is on board with city staff’s plans to adopt more aggressive climate goals and targets and to shift the way the city thinks about its overall approach.
In addition to adjusting its goals, Bo...
By Lisa Friedman
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WASHINGTON » The Biden administration Friday announced that it would begin the formal process of selling leases to develop offshore wind farms in shallow waters between Long Island, New York, and New Jersey as part of its push to transition...
By Deborah Swearingen
Daily Camera
BOULDER » Eco-Cycle is joining forces with three other recyclers to form the Alliance of Mission-Based Recyclers, an organization that hopes to advocate for recycling policies and solutions that aid in promoting an economy that eliminate...
By Coral Davenport © The New York Times Co.
WASHINGTON » The Biden administration plans to restore environmental protections to the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, one of the world’s largest intact temperate rainforests, that had been stripped away by former President Donald Trump.
The adm...
By Michael Brune
Guest Commentary
Last year, Coloradans suffered in the face of an exceptionally dry summer that birthed the worst fires in the state’s history.
For millennia, natural wildfires have played a role in balancing the landscape, but climate change has created the condi...
Denver Water removes decades-old toxic service lines faster than expected
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
Tens of thousands of Denver residents drink, bathe in and cook with water that comes in through lead service lines.
Denver Water crews are moving as fast as a public utility that serves 1....
Article from: Denver Post - June 11, 2021
THE OPEN FORUM
Dan Danbom, Denver
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that carbon dioxide levels were above 419 parts per million in May, never this high in our lifetimes.
Climate scientists t...
A new study finds that if all parts of the food system are included, food production is responsible for as much as 40 percent of global emissions. By Georgina Gustin, Inside Climate News
June 10, 2021

Emissions from food production, already considered one of the ...
Inside Clean Energy:
National lab wraps up groundbreaking project on electrifying the economy
By Dan Gearino
June 3, 2021
Many scenarios for averting the worst effects of climate change involve electrifying just about everything that now runs on fossil fuels, and shifting to an electricity...
