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There have been questions raised about whether cuts to the National Weather Service (NWS) by the Trump Administration ...
The construction of dams on rivers worldwide has stopped the natural flow of sand and silt to the sea—resulting in coastal wetland loss and disappearing beaches—as well as preventing fish from ...
Every time there’s an online outage or streaming service starts to buffer, there’s an impulse to blame a hacker...or “the cloud.” After all, web traffic is handled by satellites, right? Wrong.
HANNA, Wyo.—For decades, TV and movie Westerns have depicted cowboys driving cattle through sagebrush country—a territory portrayed as inhospitable and dotted with low-growing, grey-green shrubs as ...
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When Paul Thompson was a child growing up outside Houston in the early 1980s, severe weather and hurricanes frightened him—especially nighttime storms with the bright flashes and loud booms of ...
In 1860, when Colorado was still a territory and the gold rush was on, farmers who settled on the eastern plains were looking for another source of wealth—water. The state’s prairie is mostly without ...
Fireflies are nature’s flash mob—appearing briefly to dazzle and glow before dying. That makes the charismatic creatures, which are crucial to ecosystem health, challenging to study, but a team of ...
In contrast, last year, administration officials approved the Willow Project that will permit Conoco-Phillips to drill in Alaska for decades. Politico reports that there have been vocal protests from ...
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in Northern California was the go-to lender for renewable energy and clean technology firms. SVB understood the financing mechanisms unique to those industries and was the ...
The Roadless Rule, which was first implemented by the Clinton administration nearly 25 years ago, protects 30 percent of national forest land, and, as the Colorado Sun reports, environmental advocates ...
In 1948, a World War II-era bomber crashed into Lake Mead, the massive reservoir formed by Hoover Dam that straddles the Arizona-Nevada border. After several failed attempts to locate the plane, it ...