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  Developers look for more incentives to aid bottom line; cities, towns employ variety of strategies in face of constrained supplies By Judith Kohler This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. When Greg King starts watering outdoors at his Douglas County home, the meter starts spinning to show him how much wat...

By Raf Casert and Aleksandar Furtula The Associated Press DELFT, Netherlands>> For those seeking to live in the most sustainable way, there now is an afterlife too. A Dutch intrepid inventor is now “growing” coffins by putting mycelium, the root structure of mushrooms, together with hemp fi...

         By Ed Komenda The Associated Press SEATTLE>> Telling executives to “strive harder,” hundreds of corporate Amazon workers protested what they decried as the company’s lack of progress on climate goals and an inequitable return-to-office mandate during a lunc...

 The Denver Post Editorial  Running along Colorado’s western border with Utah is a secret ecosystem on the edge of a vast desert landscape. Red sandstone rocks give way to lush cottonwood valleys, endless plateaus are covered with ancient piñon pines and aspen groves that shelter elk and ...

One of the most exciting scientific findings of the past half century has been the discovery of widespread trophic cascades. A trophic cascade is an ecological process which starts at the top of the food chain and tumbles all the way down to the bottom. We all know that whales eat fish and krill and...

24 | 05 | 2023  The new freshwater method will focus on setting science-based targets to reduce impacts on freshwater quality and quantity and align with local boundaries. In brief: •The Science Based Targets Network has released new guidance for setting science-based targets for freshwater in ...

By Dave Marston Writers on the Range The good news these days about Farmington, New Mexico, is that the air looks clear. That’s a huge change. For 60 years the air was dingy, polluted by two, enormous coal-fired power stations in nine units that produced 3,723 megawatts of generation — enough to ...

By Natasha Frost The New York Times Deep in rural Western Australia, Pilbara Minerals’ vast processing plant looms above the red dirt, quivering as tons of a lithium ore slurry move through its pipes. The plant turns the ore from a nearby quarry into spodumene, a greenish crystalline powder that ...

Federal officials praise proposal, though will it save enough water? By Conrad Swanson This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. All seven states in the Colorado River Basin now agree on an apparent short-term breakthrough in negotiations to save water from their drying region and it’s enough of a consensus for fe...

By Ana Swanson The New York Times WASHINGTON>> For decades, a group of the world’s biggest oil producers has held huge sway over the American economy and the popularity of U.S. presidents through its control of the global oil supply, with decisions by OPEC determining what U.S. consumers pay...

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo welcomed a pair of Amur leopard cubs last Wednesday, adding to the population of one of the most endangered species in the world. Amur leopards have been on the list of critically endangered animals since 1996 and are the rarest of big cat species, with only 100 or so estimate...

By Aldo Svaldi This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The U.S. Department of Energy announced a $150 million investment in the National Renewal Energy Laboratory during the dedication on Monday of a new research laboratory designed to help the country reach net-zero emissions by 2050. That is a goal the Biden ad...

Here are comparisons to put metric in context By Conrad Swanson This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. While state and federal officials, farmers and the heads of Native American tribes work intensely to conserve water from the drying Colorado River, one term appears more often than probably any other: the acre...

  By Motoko Rich, Lisa Friedman and Jim Tankersley The New York Times HIROSHIMA, Japan>> In theory, the world’s largest industrialized democracies have agreed to stop using fossil fuels within a little more than a quarter-century and to switch to new sources of power such as solar and ...

By Matthew Brown and Camille Fassett The Associated Press ROLLING HILLS, Wyo.>> Criminal cases brought by U.S. wildlife officials for killing or injuring protected eagles dropped sharply in recent years, even as officials ramped up issuing permits that will allow wind energy companies to kil...

           POWER PLANT EMISSIONS Stephanie Arcusa and Klaus Lackner The Conversation The U.S. government is planning to crack down on power plants’ greenhouse gas emissions, and, as a result, a lot of money is about to pour into technology that can capture carbon dio...

    Trillions of gallons lost annually By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press WASHINGTON>> Climate change’s hotter temperatures and society’s diversion of water have been shrinking the world’s lakes by trillions of gallons of water a year since the early 1990s, a new study find...

By BRUCE FINLEY |  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  | The Denver Post PUBLISHED: May 18, 2023 at 1:24 p.m. | UPDATED: May 18, 2023 at 5:17 p.m. Once reviled widely as a nuisance, the millions of miller moths migrating through cities along Colorado’s Front Range this week in...

By Neal E. Boudette The New York Times Not long after buying a Ford E-Transit van for his plumbing business in November, Mitch Smedley sat down with some receipts and a calculator to figure out how much the electric vehicle was saving him on fuel expenses. A few minutes of number crunching showed...

IN BRIEF U.N.: Likelihood of hitting warming limit is growing There’s a two-out-of-three chance that the world will hit a key warming limit temporarily within five years, the United Nations weather agency said Wednesday. But it likely would be only a fleeting and less worrisome flirtation with th...