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The New York Times
WASHINGTON>> Tiffany Berger spent more than a decade working at a coal-fired power plant in Coshocton County, Ohio, eventually becoming a unit operator making about $100,000 annually.
But in 2020, American ...
By Stanley Reed
The New York Times
LONDON>> While it may be small consolation to people sweltering in the heat wave enveloping southern Europe, electric grids in countries in the region like Italy and Spain have so far met the added demand f...
It’s the 19th straight day of hitting that high temperature
Paramedics assist Alex Guerrero, who suffered heatstroke, at his family’s home in Phoenix on Saturday. Across North America, Europe and Asia, hundreds of millions of people have been endur...
  
CDPHE data show 10 people died from heat last year Data shows 10 people died from hot weather last year
By Bruce Finley
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As hot weather baked Colorado this week and forecasters anticipated hotter days to come, state health aut...
  

By Taiwo Adebayo
The Associated Press
ABUJA, Nigeria>> Abubakar Salisu was terrified when he discovered arid sand in the middle of his farmland, rendering a broad strip unfit for crops. Now, extreme heat is killing his wheat before it is ready for ...
By Jane Margolies
The New York Times
At its former headquarters in eastern Pennsylvania, Air Products had a neatly manicured lawn and boxwood hedges. But when the industrial gases company moved to nearby Allentown recently and erected a new office building, it tried something different.
Rather th...
NIH awarded $6.7M toward 14,000-square-foot building; officials fight misinformation on lab

This rendering shows Colorado State University’s planned bat research facility. PROVIDED BY CSU
By Elizabeth Hernandez
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A one-of-a-kind bat research facility is headed to Color...
Geodesic domes, other resilient designs are gaining new attention
By Christopher Flavelle
The New York Times
John duSaint, a retired software engineer, recently bought property near Bishop, Calif., in a rugged valley east of the Sierra Nevada. The area is at risk for wildfires, severe daytime hea...
“OFFSET SOME OF YOUR WASTE”
By Melina Walling
The Associated Press
DYSART, Iowa>> When Al Schafbuch cut back on plowing his Iowa fields decades ago and later began growing cover crops, he was out to save money on fertilizer and reduce erosion. He got those benefits and saw his soil ...
By Jim Robbins
The New York Times
PABLO, Mont.>> In the mountain streams of southern British Columbia and northern Montana, a rugged part of the world, fish with misshapen skulls and twisted spines have been caught over the years.
Many scientists attribute the malformed creatures and declin...
  
PANDEMIC
By Emily Anthes
The New York Times
Humans transmitted the coronavirus to white-tailed deer more than 100 times in late 2021 and early 2022, according to new research led by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Se...
  

By Susan Montoya Bryan
The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE>> Some Republican members of Congress voiced opposition Thursday to the Biden administration’s recent move to withdraw hundreds of square miles of federal land in New Mexico from oil and gas d...
A warming Earth steamed to its hottest June on record, smashing the old global mark by nearly a quarter of a degree, with global oceans setting temperature records for the third straight month, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday.
June’s 61.79 degrees global ...
By Julie McCluskie
Guest Commentary
We’ve reached the crisis point for the Colorado River and the future of the American Southwest. We need creative solutions for living with a river that contains less water yet has more demands for its limited supplies. As a resident of the high country, I know w...
  
ENVIRONMENT

By Hiroko Tabuchi
The New York Times
Natural gas, long seen as a cleaner alternative to coal and an important tool in the fight to slow global warming, can be just as harmful to the climate, a new study has concluded, unless companies can al...
Cooperative teams up with Ameresco to add 78.3 megawatts of storage
By Aldo Svaldi
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Brighton-based United Power, the state’s largest electric cooperative, and Ameresco, a leading cleantech firm, are teaming up to install Colorado’s largest battery storage project to date.
U...
ENVIRONMENT

By Cara Buckley
The New York Times
Xiulin Ruan, a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, didn’t set out to make it into the Guinness World Records when he began trying to make a new type of paint. He had a loftier goal: to cool down buildings without torching the...
By Monika Pronczuk and Catrin Einhorn
The New York Times
European lawmakers, after an unexpectedly bitter political battle, approved a bill Wednesday that would require European Union countries to restore 20% of all degraded nature areas within their borders on land and at sea.
The measur...
By Linda Qiu
The New York Times
WASHINGTON>> The Agriculture Department said Wednesday that it would establish a monitoring and data collection network to measure greenhouse gas emissions and determine how much carbon can be captured using certain farming practices.
The network, using $300 ...
Gas stoves release benzene throughout home,
By Noelle Phillips
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Cooking with a gas stove in your kitchen can emit as much benzene into a home as second-hand tobacco smoke, depending on ventilation and the size of the house, according to new research from Stanford Unive...
