NAPLES, Italy>> Europe is the fastest-warming continent and its temperatures are rising at roughly twice the global average, two top climate monitoring organizations reported Monday, warning of the consequences for human health, glacier melt and economic activity.
The U.N.’s World Met...
SOLAR FUNDING
Biden announces $7B in federal grants
By Alexa St. John and Will Weissert
The Associated Press
TRIANGLE, Va.>> President Joe Biden marked Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal grants for residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-inc...
  
SOLAR INDUSTRY
Hopes of domestic boom clouded
Surge of cheap exports from China upending U.S. clean energy sector
By Alan Rappeport
The New York Times
WASHINGTON>> Less than a year ago, CubicPV, which manufactures components for solar panels, annou...
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PUBLISHED: April 21, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. | UPDATED: April 21, 2024 at 9:51 a.m.
Utilities that provide drinking water to nearly 268,000 Coloradans will need tens ...
Surge of cheap exports from China upending U.S. clean energy sector
By Alan Rappeport
The New York Times
WASHINGTON>> Less than a year ago, CubicPV, which manufactures components for solar panels, announced that it had secured more than $100 million in financing to build a $1.4 bill...
By Matthew Daly
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON>> The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday designated two forever chemicals that have been used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances, an action intended to ensure quicker cleanup of the toxic compounds and re...
Earth Day is April 22. For those who are unfamiliar with it, Earth Day is designed to raise awareness for what humanity can do to better conserve and protect the precious natural resources we have been given. Even those who have never heard of Earth Day may already know a few things about conserving...
By Mead Gruver
The Associated Press
CHEYENNE>> Two more black-footed ferrets have been cloned from the genes used for the first clone of an endangered species in the U.S., bringing to three the number of slinky predators genetically identical to one of the last such animals found in the wild...
By Wendy Keefover
Writer’s on the Range
It’s legal in Wyoming to chase coyotes and run over them with snowmobiles, but recently, a man used his snowmobile to run down a wolf until it was disabled. Then he taped the wolf’s mouth shut and paraded th...
By Michael Phillis
The Associated Press
The Biden administration on Wednesday finalized strict limits on certain so-called “forever chemicals” in drinking water that will require utilities to reduce them to the lowest level they reliably can be measured. Officials say this will reduce exposure for...
NEW RULE IMPACTS 218 FACILITIES
By Matthew Daly
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON>> More than 200 chemical plants nationwide will be required to reduce toxic emissions that are likely to cause cancer under a new rule issued Tuesday by the Environmental Protection Agency. The rule advances Pre...
By Judson Jones
The New York Times
A key area of the Atlantic Ocean where hurricanes form is abnormally warm, much warmer than an ideal swimming pool temperature of about 80 degrees and on the cusp of feeling more like warm bathtub water.
These conditions were described by Benjamin Kirtman, a pro...
  
THOMPSON DIVIDE
By Elise Schmelzer
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More than a decade of advocacy by a broad coalition of Colorado conservationists, ranchers, local governments and recreationists paid off Wednesday when federal officials banned new oil a...
AVERAGE SNOWPACK
By Elise Schmelzer
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It was an average year for Colorado’s snowpack — and that’s great news.
The statewide snowpack sat at 109% of the 30-year median on Wednesday, just a few days shy of the normal peak of snowpack for the state. Every major river basin i...
  
ENVIRONMENT

By Christopher Flavelle
The New York Times
ALAMEDA, Calif.>> A little before 9 a.m. Tuesday, an engineer named Matthew Gallelli crouched on the deck of a decommissioned aircraft carrier in San Francisco Bay, pulled on a pair of ear pro...
By Farai Mutsaka and Gerald Imray
The Associated Press
MANGWE, Zimbabwe>> Delicately and with intense concentration, Zanyiwe Ncube poured her small share of precious golden cooking oil into a plastic bottle at a food aid distribution site deep in rural Zimbabwe.
“I don’t want to los...
By Olivia Doak
Daily Camera
A team from the University of Colorado Boulder won recognition from The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on Thursday for their research in the Arctic and collaboration with its Indigenous people.
Amid rapid climate and social changes,...
By David Gelles
The New York Times
REYKJAVIK, Iceland>> On a wind-swept Icelandic plateau, an international team of engineers and executives is powering up an innovative machine designed to alter the very composition of Earth’s atmosphere.
If all goes as planned, the enormous vacuum will so...
By Francis Kokutse and Jessica Donati
The Associated Press
ACCRA, Ghana>> Shoppers may get a bitter surprise in their Easter baskets this year. Chocolate eggs and bunnies are more expensive than ever as changing climate patterns eat into global cocoa supplies and the earnings of farm...
  
By Alexa St. John, Matthew Daly and Joshua A. Bickel
The Associated Press
LONDON, Ohio>> Within 24 hours of buying his red Ford Mustang Mach-E, Liam Sawyer set off on a camping trip.
Sawyer, who bought the electric SUV “because I think the technology...
