By Carolyn Sackariason
Aspen Times
ASPEN » The City Council agreed on Monday to implement a program that will prohibit food in landfill trash and recycling centers, as well as spending as much as $700,000 to carry out the new law and directing staff members to pursue new funding sources to...
By Michelle Chapman
The Associated Press
Ford will split its electric vehicle and internal combustion operations into two businesses to accelerate its adaptation of new technology and the Detroit automaker said Wednesday that its transformation into an EV company is accelerating.
Ford pla...
By Victoria Milko and Julie Watson
The Associated Press
JAKARTA, INDONESIA »
The walls of Saifullah’s home in northern Jakarta are lined like tree rings, marking how high the floodwaters have reached each year — some more than 4 feet from the damp dirt floor.
When the water gets too high...
By John Aguilar
The Denver Post
As electric cars become an increasingly common sight on Colorado’s roads, the state is ready to target a chunk of the transportation sector that largely has escaped electrification so far — the thousands of buses, trucks and delivery vehicles that belch greenhouse g...
By Ella Cobb
Daily Camera
More than two months after the Marshall fire, Superior residents are experiencing some unexpected fallout from the disaster with the taste and smell of residual smoke in their water.
Complaints of the smoky taste and odor from residents began immediately after th...
Project could bring 10 trains, two miles long, through Denver daily
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
A railroad project out of Utah that would bring up to 10 oil trains, each two miles long, through Denver daily has federal approval but no clear picture of the environmental damag...
By Kevin Freking
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » A bill that would boost health care services and disability benefits dramatically for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan won approval Thursday in the House.
The measure has the backing of the nation’s major vetera...
Scientists released a pair of extensive studies on Saturday that point to a market in Wuhan, China, as the origin of the coronavirus pandemic. The two reports, totaling about 150 pages, have not yet been published in a scientific journal.
The researchers analyzed data from a range of sources to loo...
Firm says proposal a win for area; critics call it a “buy and dry” scheme
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
ALAMOSA » Trouble swirls above the aquifers of Colorado’s San Luis Valley, where farmers and ranchers raise and grow much of the region’s cattle, potatoes, alfalfa and barley.
Those aquife...
By Coral Davenport
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WASHINGTON » In the most important environmental case in more than a decade, the Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments in a dispute that could restrict or even eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to control the pollution that ...
By David Biller
The Associated Press
PETROPOLIS, BRAZIL » Every day, Alex Sandro Condé leaves the shelter where he has been staying since deadly landslides devastated his poor, mountainside neighborhood and seeks out others who have suffered loss. He doesn’t have to look hard.
C...
3.3 billion people’s daily lives “are highly vulnerable” to extreme weather
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
Deadly with extreme weather now, climate change is about to get so much worse. It is likely going to make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer, gloomier and way more dangerous in the ...
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser on Wednesday sued companies that produce PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” which are linked to cancer and birth defects and likely seeping into hundreds of water sources across the state.
Weiser filed the lawsuit in state...
By Noelle Phillips
The Denver Post
Colorado will join three other Rocky Mountain states to apply for federal money to create a hydrogen hub that would help Colorado meet its goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions over the next 28 years.
Gov. Jared Polis joined the governors of New Mexico, Ut...
Wildlife biologist traces markings to man-made snares
By Rachel Nuwer
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Paula White, a wildlife biologist, was examining lion skulls to estimate the animals’ ages when she noticed something strange about their teeth. Instead of just showing the normal, gradual wear ...
By Emily Anthes
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The mountain gorillas that live in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park have frequent encounters with humans. On any given day, the animals might come across smartphone-toting tourists, fecal-sampleswiping biologists or antibiotic-administering veterina...
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
Millions of dollars are headed to Colorado State University to study wildfire prevention, mitigation and recovery, after years of drought and record-setting wildfires across the state.
The $20 million grant will be split between CSU’s Colorado For...
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Gaze for a moment at your smartphone. The circuitry contains a hard-toget metal called tantalum. The jingling speaker requires neodymium. For that jangly-lit screen, you need yttrium. The battery is made with lithium.
How to obtain enough of these so-called...
By Michael Rubinkam
The Associated Press
DIMOCK, PA. » Meeting with a man whose well water has been polluted for years, officials in the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office asked him whether he would consider accepting a treatment system from the gas driller charged with fouling...
By Deborah Swearingen
Daily Camera
BOULDER » With money covered by the city’s Climate Initiatives department, Community Cycles will now be able to recycle bike tires that are not suitable for reuse.
The city committed to spending $1,000, the cost of up to 2,000 recycled bike tires, at Eco...
