» A United Nations expert on poverty says hundreds of millions of people around the world face hunger, displacement, disease and death because of climate change.
In a report released Tuesday, the U.N.’s independent expert on extreme poverty and human rights said current measures to cope ...
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ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY By Ellen Knickmeyer The Associated Press
Associated Press file
WASHINGTON» Despite scientists’ increasingly urgent warnings, the Trump administration ordered a sweeping about-face Wednesday on Obama-era efforts t...
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By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON» The world’s oceans will likely lose about one-sixth of their fish and other marine life by the end of the century if climate change continues on its current path, a new study says.
Ever...
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By Jason Samenow
The Associated Press
Simultaneous heat waves scorched land areas all over the Northern Hemisphere last summer, killing hundreds and hospitalizing thousands while intensifying destructive and deadly wildfires.
A study published th...
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By Ellen Knickmeyer
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON» Environmental Protection Agency heads under three previous Republican presidents joined their Democratic counterparts Tuesday in telling lawmakers they were concerned by the Trump admini...
A two-hour “dose” of nature a week significantly boosts health and wellbeing, research suggests, even if you simply sit and enjoy the peace.
The physical and mental health benefits of time spent in parks, woods or the beach are well known, but the new research is the first major study into how long...
by Lucía Rodríguez on February 19, 2017
Primates are facing extinction.
63% of the world’s primate species are currently threatened with extinction based on a study published in Science Advances, led by Alejandro Estrada and Paul Garber and co-authoring, one of the founders of the Lemur Co...
Shared from the 6/6/2019 The Denver Post eEdition By Eric Tucker The Associated Press
WASHINGTON» Senior U.S. officials warned Wednesday that climate change is an increasing threat to national security, a message at odds with a broader Trump administration effort to downplay the t...
By Margaret Cooney, Miriam Goldstein, and Emma Shapiro Posted on June 3, 2019, 12:01 am, Center for American Progress
Currently, in the United States, two major MPA policy approaches have found success and been proven to provide benefits to fishermen and other local stakeholder communities. O...
Sustaining Planet Earth’s Life Is in Our Hands, by John H. Fitch, Ph. D., Affiliate Full Professor, Warner College of Natural Resources and Morgan Libraries, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado, June 4, 2019.
The newly released Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiver...
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By Mario Sanelli
The Denver Post Glenwood Springs on Colorado’s Western Slope last week became the seventh U.S. city — and the second in the state — to be 100 percent powered by renewable energy.
Every home, business and street light ...
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By Darryl Fears
The Washington Post On a cold, miserable morning in May, Stan Gehrt trod across an open field as wind and rain blew in his face. He was leading a team of wildlife biologists on a mission to find an animal with a gift fo...
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By Ellen Knickmeyer, John Flesher and Michael Casey
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON» The Food and Drug Administration found substantial levels of a worrisome class of nonstick, stain-resistant industrial compounds in some grocery store mea...
About 80 countries want to expand their pledges to address climate change, advancing their action under the Paris climate accord, according to the United Nations. "We are not talking about a small incremental approach," said Luis Alfonso de Alba, a Mexican diplomat and the UN secretary-general's env...
Scientists are sounding the alarm over the potential for catastrophic changes to our environment.
By Denise Chow
In the latest bit of bad news for a planet beset by climate change, the concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has climbed to a level last seen more than 3 millio...
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By Taylor Telford
The Washington Post
TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky works in his office at company headquarters in Trenton, N.J., in 2013. TerraCycle creates recycling systems for hard-to-recycle waste, like its program to turn cigaret...
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Plan proposed to block Asian carp’s advance
By John Flesher The Associated Press
Asian carp are on display during a congressional hearing in 2010 on preventing the fish from reaching the Great Lakes. Associated Press file
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By Ellen Knickmeyer
The Associated Press, Shared from The Denver Post, May 22, 2019
WASHINGTON» Long-running research projects credited with pivotal discoveries about the harm that pesticides, air pollution and other hazards pose to children are in jeopardy or shutting down because the...
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Native Gwich’in leaders joined climate activists in Denver, London and Aberdeen, Scotland, on Monday to demand the fossil fuels giant BP back off plans to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Trump administration officials are pushing for a ...
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Science teacher Sarah Ott speaks to her class about climate literacy in Dalton, Ga. Teachers across the country describe struggles finding trustworthy materials to help them teach their studen...
