Due to the need to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe from COVID-19, this year’s Thanksgiving celebrations will look a bit different than usual. Our hope is that you find creative ways to connect safely, whether it’s meeting up outdoors for a smaller gathering or using Zoom to join with your fam...
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
Colorado isn’t predicted to fall as drastically short of Gov. Jared Polis’ goals for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions as initially thought, according to a new report analyzing bills passed in the General Assembly’s 2021 session.
The report released Monday...
By Sheikh Saaliq
The Associated Press
NEW DELHI » Sky obscured by thick, gray smog. Monuments and high-rise buildings swallowed by a blanket of haze. People struggling to breathe.
In the Indian capital, it is that time of the year again.
The city’s air quality index fell into the “very...
Some countries express disappointment on the final climate pact but say it’s better than nothing.
By Seth Borenstein and Frank Jordans The Associated Press
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND » Almost 200 nations accepted a compromise deal Saturday aimed at keeping a key global warming target alive, but it con...
By Sylvia Hui
The Associated Press
FAIRBOURNE, WALES » Like many others who came to Fairbourne, Stuart Eves decided the coastal village in northern Wales would be home for life when he moved here 26 years ago. He fell in love with the peaceful, slow pace of small village ...
By Carley Petesch
The Associated Press
KEBEMER, SENEGAL » The idea was striking in its ambition: African countries aimed to plant trees in a nearly 5,000-mile line spanning the entire continent, creating a natural barrier to hold back the Sahara Desert as climate change swept the sands s...
The Denver Post editorial
Congress has produced a fairly good package of infrastructure investment. The $1 trillion bill will be signed into law Monday by President Joe Biden and it could do great things for this nation. Of course, much will depend on how the money is spent, but we know Color...
By Jack Ewing © The New York Times Co.
NARSAQ, GREENLAND » This huge, remote and barely habited island is known for frozen landscapes, remote fjords and glaciers that heave giant sheets of ice into the sea.
But increasingly Greenland is known for something else: rare minerals. It’s all becaus...
Apartment complex opens itself up to nature for all to see
By Aldo Svaldi The Denver Post
I.M. Pei and Michael Graves are two world-famous architects who provided Colorado with some of its most distinctive designs, including the 16th Street Mall and the Denver Central Library. Now, one of ...
By Anjani Trivedi
Bloomberg Opinion
As the world focuses on the COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow, the dawn of the electric vehicle era is sure to be touted as a major solution to a severe emissions problem. What few policy makers and business leaders seem to acknowledge, though, is j...
“Perfect violent storm”
By Ivan Penn © The New York Times Co.
Seven months after workers finished installing solar panels atop the Garcia family home near Stanford University, the system is little more than a roof ornament. The problem: The local utility’s equipment is so overloaded that there is ...
By Tanya Titova and Frank Jordans
The Associated Press
MOSCOW » A Russian island north of Japan has become a testing ground for Moscow’s efforts to reconcile its prized fossil fuel industry with the need to do something about climate change.
More than two-thirds of Sakhalin Island...
By Matthew Brown and Gillian Flaccus
The Associated Press
PORTLAND, ORE. » Political appointees in the Trump administration relied on faulty science to justify stripping habitat protections for the imperiled northern spotted owl, U.S. wildlife officials said Tuesday as they struck down a rule that...
NYT, Nov, 9, 2021
By Thomas L. Friedman
Opinion Columnist
I spent last week talking to all sorts of people gathered for the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, and it left me with profoundly mixed emotions.
Having been to most of the climate summits since Bali in 2007, I can tell you this one...
By Angela Charlton
The Associated Press
SOULAINES-DHUYS, FRANCE » Deep in a French forest of oaks, birches and pines, a steady stream of trucks carries a silent reminder of nuclear energy’s often-invisible cost: canisters of radioactive waste, heading into storage for the next 300 ...
By John Flesher and Tammy Webber
The Associated Press
MONTICELLO, MINN. » Silflower was among native plants that blanketed the vast North American prairie until settlers developed farms and cities. Nowadays confined largely to roadsides and ditches, the long-stemmed cousin of the sunflower...
By Katie Langford Daily Camera
University of Colorado Boulder and United Nations Human Rights will cohost the inaugural Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit on campus next fall, bringing international leaders together in Boulder to address climate change as a human rights crisis.
While...
Proposal includes millions for electric school buses, air quality monitoring, green buildings
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
Facing record levels of ozone pollution along Colorado’s Front Range this summer, and likely in summers moving forward, Gov. Jared Polis wants to spend nearly ha...
By Marion Renault
© The New York Times Co.
Geographically speaking, it would be almost impossible for this bird to get any more lost.
A rogue eagle popped up Wednesday in eastern Canada — about 4,700 miles away from home. For months, the Steller’s sea eagle has been tantalizing North Amer...
By MarÍa Verza, Christina Larson and Victoria Milko The Associated Press
PROGRESO, MEXICO » When a rotten egg smell rises from the mangrove swamps of southeast Mexico, something is going well. It means that this key coastal habitat for blunting hurricane impacts has recovered...
