By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
SUPERIOR » Too many houses built too close together on the tinder-dry high plains between Denver and Boulder led to the record Marshall firestorm losses topping $1 billion, insurance industry researchers found this past week as they sifted through ashes an...
By Andrew Travers
Aspen Times
You can’t miss it or its message.
As you step out of the Silver Queen Gondola at 11,212 or so feet above sea level atop Aspen Mountain, you see a gondola car beside the Sundeck, on a perch above the Castle Creek Valley that is usually the most popular spot for touris...
By Jessica Seaman
The Denver Post
Becky Bolinger and the team at the Colorado Climate Center have kept watch over the dry and warm conditions that have blanketed the Front Range since the summer, knowing that they provided the perfect recipe for a wildfire.
For them, it was a matt...
By Paul Krugman
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Build Back Better — the Biden administration’s effort to create a better future for America — is resting on a political knife edge. It’s anyone’s guess whether it will become law. What we do know is that to make it through Congress, it will have to weather ...
Facing a deadline, panel considers tougher rules on oil, gas operations
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
For about five years, Von Bortz and Amy Smith have lived in rural Larimer County on property where they run a sanctuary for farm animals. The location is good: It’s close to Fort Collins and C...
By Brad Plumer and Hiroko Tabuchi
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In a nation that is deeply split along partisan lines over the pandemic response, racial equity and abortion, add this: gas stoves and furnaces.
This week New York City moved to ban gas hookups in new buildings, joining ci...
By Damien Cave
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WEE WAA, AUSTRALIA » Two years ago, the fields outside Christina Southwell’s family home near the cotton capital of Australia looked like a dusty, brown desert as drought-fueled wildfires burned to the north and south.
Last week, a...
By Bruce Schreiner and Jim Salter
Kentucky hardest hit as death toll expected to climb
The Associated Press
MAYFIELD, KY. » A monstrous tornado, carving a track that could rival the longest on record, ripped across the middle of the U.S. in a stormfront that killed dozen...
By Christopher Flavelle
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WASHINGTON » The new infrastructure law signed by President Joe Biden includes almost $50 billion to protect communities against climate change, the largest such investment in U.S. history and a recognition that the effects of warming are ou...
By Raymond Zhong
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This is a story about one of those unsung forces that quietly keep the world running. It is a story about the clockwork interconnectedness of modern civilization, about how disturbances in one part of the planet can kick up storms in another.
This...
By Ian Austen
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PRINCETON, BRITISH COLUMBIA
» With light drizzle in the air, a young woman wiped away tears as she stood on the veranda of a newly renovated gray and white house. Its toilets and other plumbing fixtures sat beside her. Most of the house’s contents we...
By Brian Melley
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES » Lightning-sparked wildfires killed thousands of giant sequoias this year, leading to a staggering two-year death toll that accounts for up to nearly a fifth of Earth’s largest trees, officials said Friday.
Fires in Sequoia National Park...
By David Williams and Chris Brown
Guest Commentary
The 2021 wildfire season continues to wreak havoc on the Western United States with more than 48,725 wildfires that have burned 6,619,632 acres across the region. These fires, in addition to devastating the states, make affected areas more...
By Alan Fram
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » A fractious House handed President Joe Biden a marquee victory Friday by approving an approximately $2 trillion social and environment bill, as Democrats cast aside disputes that for months had stalled the measure and hampered efforts to sell ...
By Ellen Knickmeyer
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » After talking the climate talk at U.N. negotiations in Scotland, the Biden administration now tests whether a divided United States can walk the climate walk and push a massive investment for a new era of clean energy through th...
By Brian Melley
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES » Lightning-sparked wildfires killed thousands of giant sequoias this year, leading to a staggering two-year death toll that accounts for up to nearly a fifth of Earth’s largest trees, officials said Friday.
Fires in Sequoia National Park a...
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Why two Nos may still make a Yes.
There are (at least) two ways to see the final days of the UN’s COP 26 climate conference and the Glasgow Climate Pact it produced.
Was it yet another example of the developed world turning a blind eye to the very real suffering of dev...
Activists have filed a complaint with the UN’s Human Rights Council, saying member nations have supported unsustainable population growth that is dangerously warming the planet.By Elena Shao
November 16, 2021
Cassie King grew up in San Diego, the daughter of loving parents, and she’d wante...
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...
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...
