By Carley Petesch
The Associated Press
DAKAR, SENEGAL» As the world has watched with fear and fascination the fires burning in Brazil’s Amazon rain forest, satellite images show a far greater number of blazes on the African continent.
NASA says the “fire continent” is home to at least 70% of the 1...
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Did you tune in to Discovery Channel’s insanely popular Shark Week last month? If you did, you’re certainly not alone. Each year, millions of Americans gather around their television sets to learn more about these ...
It could be lights out for tiny toiletries.
Marriott International, the world’s largest hotel chain, announced Wednesday it will eliminate small plastic bottles of shampoo, conditioner and bath gel from its hotel rooms worldwide by December 2020. They will be replaced with larger bottles or wall-mo...
By Carley Petesch
The Associated Press
DAKAR, SENEGAL» As the world has watched with fear and fascination the fires burning in Brazil’s Amazon rain forest, satellite images show a far greater number of blazes on the African continent.
NASA says the “fire continent” is home to at least 70% of the 1...
Beyond Meat has another high-profile fast-food partner — KFC — to help the faux meat maker tackle a plant-based substitute for a different major protein source: chicken.
KFC, owned by Yum! Brands Inc., will test plant-based nuggets and boneless wings at one of its Atlanta restaurants on Tuesday. Th...
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WORLD WILDLIFE CONFERENCE By Maria Cheng and Jamey Keaten
The Associated Press
GENEVA» Countries have agreed to protect more than a dozen shark species at risk of extinction, in a move aimed at conserving some of the ocean’s most awe-inspirin...
By Craig Giammona
Bloomberg News, Shared from the 8/28/2019 The Denver Post eEdition
BROOMFIELD-BASED BALL CORP.
Beer pong may be getting more environmentally friendly.
Ball Corp., the 139-year-old packaging company in Broomfield that has benefited as beverage companies shift from plastic amid po...
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Global warming is already here
This editorial was written by The Washington Post.
Global warming is already here, striking substantial regions of the United States with increasing severity. That is the upshot of an exhaustive P...
By Victor Caivano
The Associated Press Shared from the 8/24/2019 The Denver Post eEdition
PORTO VELHO, BRAZIL»
Under increasing international pressure to contain fires sweeping parts of the Amazon, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday authorized use of the military to battle the mass...
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By Felicia FonsecaThe Associated Press
FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ.» Snow piled up in the mountains across the West last winter, leaving enough to thrill skiers into the summer, swelling rivers and streams when it melted, and largely making wildfire r...
By Mead Gruver
The Associated Press
CHEYENNE» Bigger and more-efficient equipment will allow an electric utility to redevelop Wyoming’s first commercial wind farm so it produces the same amount of power with far fewer turbines, an example of the growing feasibility of renewable energy in the top U....
Shared from the 8/18/2019 The Denver Post eEdition By Jamey Keaten and Maria Cheng
The Associated Press
GENEVA» From guitars to traditional medicines and from tusk to tail, mankind’s exploitation of the planet’s fauna and flora is putting some animals and plants at risk of extinction. Represen...
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By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Scientists testing rainwater around metro Denver and high in the Front Range mountains found microscopic bits of colored plastic in more than 90% of their samples — adding to growing evidence that plastics have contaminated the planet far more deeply ...
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WASHINGTON » The Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn preliminary approval for deadly sodium cyanide traps blamed for injuries to people and pets as well as targeted predators. EPA head Andrew Wheeler said in a stateme...
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BERLIN » July was the hottest month measured on Earth since records began in 1880, the latest in a long line of peaks that scientists say backs up predictions for man-made climate change.
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thurs...
Shared from the 8/14/2019 The Denver Post eEditior By Ellen Knickmeyer The Associated Press
GREENBELT, MD.» Hand-raising monarch butterflies in the midst of a global extinction crisis, Laura Moore and her neighbors gather ’round in her suburban Maryland yard to launch a bu...
JULY 26, 2019
Washington, D.C. — The Trump Administration released its final management plan today for the 15% of Bears Ears National Monument it didn’t strip of monument status. It allows the “chaining” of thousands of acres of forest, and rights of way for new roads and utility lines thro...
Shared from the 8/15/2019 The Denver Post eEdition By Jennifer A. Dlouhy
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The Trump administration is readying a plan to end direct federal regulation of methane leaks from oil and gas facilities, even as some energy companies insist they don’t want the relief.
A draft proposal ...
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Trump Weakens Endangered Species Protections, Making It Harder to Consider Effects of Climate Change
by Sabrina Shankman
The changes also let the government consider economic interests and could ope...
