By Jason Bittel
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In 1890, a mustachioed eccentric named Eugene Schieffelin released a few dozen European starlings into New York City. His supposed goal? Introduce all the bird species mentioned in William Shakespeare’s plays to America.
More than a century later, ...
By Jesus Jiménez
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The plastic rings ubiquitous with six-packs of beer and soda are gradually becoming a thing of the past as more companies switch to greener packaging.
The changes are taking different forms — from cardboard to six-pack rings made with left...
By Sabrina Parys
NerdWallet
Many Americans have woven green practices into their everyday lives — from recycling to going paperless and even cutting back on meat consumption.
Switching to clean energy or purchasing an electric vehicle are additional ways to go green, but large-scale upgrades also...
By Thomas Fuller
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SALEM, ORE. » A giant earthquake. A huge flood. Wildfires followed by choking smoke. An ice storm that knocks out power for days.
Four years ago, a group of employees at the Oregon State Treasury sat down and compiled a list of every conceivable d...
By Coral Davenport
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WASHINGTON » The Biden administration announced Friday that it would resume selling leases for new oil and gas drilling on public lands but also would raise the federal royalties that companies must pay to drill, which would be the first increase in thos...
One of Earth Protect’s founding Advisory Council Members, Dr Hugh Lavery AM, has published a sequel to the baseline account of environmental management set out in 1978 in his Exploration North: Australia’s Wildlife from Desert to Reef.
Again using Queensland as an illustrative focus, Conser...
By Emily Anthes
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The Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, on the southern coast of Ukraine, is a haven for migrating birds. More than 120,000 birds spend the winter flitting about its shores, and a multicolored spectrum of rare species — the whitetailed eagle, red-breasted ...
By Margaret Roach
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We sow a first flat of seeds; we gently rake debris from a bed to make way for a winter aconite or snowdrop to poke through and cheer us. And so it begins, again.
I was reminded recently to watch for the garden’s intangible but transformative yie...
Chemicals dumped into Sand Creek, South Platte River
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
A substantial portion of PFAS — or forever chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects — found last year in Sand Creek and the South Platte River can be traced to the Suncor Energy oil refinery, a new ...
Brain benefits could be undermined
By Gretchen Reynolds
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Work out in polluted air and you may miss out on some of the brain benefits of exercise, according to two, large-scale new studies of exercise, air quality and brain health. The studies, which involved tens of thousa...
Residents can expect 12% premium rise for home insurance
By Aldo Svaldi
The Denver Post
Colorado over the past 20 years has suffered more major natural disasters than Florida and is among nine states where the number of events causing $1 billion or more in damage has more than tripled ove...
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
Xcel Energy’s chronically troubled Comanche 3 coalfired power plant might be closed earlier than the 2034 retirement date in the utility’s proposed energy resource plan.
The fate of Comanche 3 is one of the issues Xcel Energy hopes to resolve with organiza...
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
Colorado’s U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert and 23 other Republican members of Congress wrote federal officials this month, asking that they remove the gray wolves from the federal endangered species list.
A northern California judge’s February ruling placed the ...
By Jack Ewing
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Even before war in Ukraine sent fuel prices through the roof, the trucking industry was under intense pressure to kick its addiction to diesel, a major contributor to climate change and urban air pollution. But it still has to figure out which...
“It’s good busıness to be kind”
Inmate-turned-developer breaking ground in RiNo says he’s putting kindness over profits
By Elizabeth Hernandez The Denver Post In his younger years, 66-year-old Bernard Hurley spent $120 a month at the prison canteen. Last month, the Denver inmate-turned-developer d...
Hurrah to all the Earth Protectors out there who day by day live their lives at home, at work and in their communities
in ways that lead to a sustainable life on Earth. We honor you and celebrate you and this amazing and beautiful Earth.
By The Associated Press
LINCOLN, NEB. » Nebraska lawmakers gave final approval Tuesday to a bill that would let the state build a canal in Colorado to divert water out of the South Platte River, a project steeped in fears about the Denver area’s growing water consumption.
Lawmakers...
By Noelle Phillips
The Denver Post
With the threat of missing another benchmark for improving air quality hovering like a blanket of summer smog, Colorado’s top environmental officials are asking the legislature for $47 million to hire more people and build better technology for monitoring...
By Henry Fountain
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Adélie penguins have had a rough time of it on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula, where warming linked to climate change has occurred faster than almost anywhere else on the planet. That and other factors have led to sharp declines in Ad...
Reclassification as a “severe” violator would mean higher gas prices, more emissions permits
By Noelle Phillips
The Denver Post
After years of failing to improve air quality, the Denver region is on the verge of receiving another downgrade by the Environmental Protection Agency that would...
