By Coral Davenport
The New York Times
A directive issued Thursday by the Biden administration would, for the first time, have federal agencies consider the economic damage caused by climate change when deciding what kinds of vehicles, equipment and goods to buy.
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By Delger Erdenesanaa
The New York Times
Temperature records continue to topple. Last month was the planet’s warmest August in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 174-year record, agency officials said Thursday. The global surface temper...
  
By Delger Erdenesanaa and Noah Weiland
The New York Times
On the heels of an exceptionally fiery and smoky summer, two new reports released Wednesday confirmed what many Americans have been already seeing and breathing.
Smoke from increasingly frequent and...
By Ryan Spencer
Summit Daily
The Tuesday after Labor Day, a few volunteers worked as busily as beavers, wading knee deep into dammed waters along North Tenmile Creek in Frisco.
A chain saw, three corrugated plastic pipes, wire and rebar lay around the picnic table where Alton Penz and Frank Ricci...
New research reveals that even a “mid-transition” to electrified transportation could have outsized health and economic benefits for Black and Latino residents.
By Aydali Campa
September 20, 2023
Electrifying just 30 percent of all light- and heavy-duty vehicles in the lower Great Lakes region co...
A small city ended its bus service to find out
By Jeff McMurray
The Associated Press
When a small city abruptly parked all its buses to launch a publicly subsidized van service offering $1.50 trips anywhere in town, only one of its bus drivers — a big-city transplant — went along for the ride.
M...
By Coral Davenport
The New York Times
If President Joe Biden wins a second term, his climate policies would take aim at steel and cement plants, factories and oil refineries — heavily polluting industries that have never before had to rein in their heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
New controls on ...
Utility says it’s working with installers, governments to meet solar power demand
By Judith Kohler
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People who lost their homes in the 2021 Marshall fire, Colorado’s costliest at $2 billion in property damage, have spent much time going back and forth with insurance ...
By Nicholas Kristof
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World leaders are gathering this week at the United Nations and proclaim their passion for ending poverty and hunger around the globe. This week, approximately 90,000 children under the age of 5 will die, mostly of preventable causes.
As leaders discus...
By Somini Sengupta
The New York Times
MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash.>> Once, there were 29. Now at least one is gone, maybe three. Those that remain are almost half the size they used to be. Mount Rainier is losing its glaciers. That is all the more striking as it is the most glacier-cov...
By Edith M. Lederer
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS>> The commitments were far-reaching and ambitious. Among them: End extreme poverty and hunger. Ensure every child on Earth gets a quality secondary education. Achieve gender equality. Make significant inroads in tackling climate change....
Proposal would change 151-year-old law related to hardrock minerals
By Matthew Daly
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON>> The Biden administration is recommending changes to a 151-year-old law that governs mining for copper, gold and other hardrock minerals on U.S.-owned lands, including making...
Harnessing the Power of People to Fight Ocean Trash
In partnership with volunteer organizations and individuals around the globe, the International Coastal Cleanup® (ICC) engages people to remove trash from the world’s beaches and waterways. Thanks to millions of volunteers around the world...
By Sam Metz and Rick Bowmer
The Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY>> It’s lunchtime at the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District and a colony of sabethes cyaneus — also known as the paddle-legged beauty for its feathery appendages and iridescent coloring — find their way to Ella Branham.
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$1 billion or more events
The deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia’s watery storm surge helped push the United States to a record for the number of weather disasters that cost $1 billion or more. And there’s still four months to go on what’s looking more like a calendar of calamities.
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By Matt O’Brien and Hannah Fingerhut
The Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa>> The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure.
But one thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed for its technology was plenty of water, pulled from the watershed of the Rac...
Urban animals can’t take the heat
By Emily Anthes
The New York Times
For many wild animals urban environments are unappealing homes, covered in concrete and carved up by car traffic. As buildings go up and roads are laid down, some species seem to vanish from the landscape, and animal communities...
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By Manuela Andreoni
The New York Times
Thousands of invasive species introduced to new ecosystems around the world are causing more than $423 billion in estimated losses to the global economy every year by harming nature, damaging food systems and threatening human health, a wide-r...
By Alan Henceroth and Geoff Buchheister
Guest Commentary
Hitting the road before dawn, quietly waiting in the cold to nab one of the first chairs up the mountain, all in the hope of capturing that exhilarating sensation that only skiers and snowboarders know — when the stars and snowpack a...
By Anthony Ham
The New York Times
A male saltwater crocodile approached a female saltie — as they’re known in Australia — in the same enclosure at Australia Zoo. He snapped at her aggressively.
But then in a change of heart that wasn’t what you’d expect from one of Australia’s most fearsome preda...
