Results for keyword: Climate Change
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Aspen, Colo. environmental community split over small hydro
Reviving a small hydroelectric plant on Castle Creek was supposed to help the city's utility get closer to providing 100 percent carbon free electricity as part of an effort to fight climate change. Instead, it's kicked up a furor.
by Allen Best, Apr 24, 2013 -
The wandering lepidopterist
Eric Wagner joins naturalist Robert Michael Pyle on one leg of his first-ever “Big Year” – in which he will try to see as many different butterflies as he possibly can.
by Eric Wagner, Aug 02, 2008 -
Shifting sands in Navajoland
On the drought-stricken Navajo Nation, scientist Margaret Hiza Redsteer studies the movement of sand dunes.
by Michelle Nijhuis, Jun 23, 2008 -
The clock is ticking
Robert Redford and Auden Schendler find it ironic that, under its current leadership, the Environmental Protection Agency could never qualify for one of the Climate Protection Awards it gives out.
by Robert Redford and Auden Schendler, Jun 04, 2007 -
Global climate change? Let’s go shopping
Jim Stiles scoffs at the notion of saving the planet by buying so-called “green” products.
by Jim Stiles, May 28, 2007 -
Why are there still climate-change deniers?
Auden Schendler finds the evidence compelling but resistance persistent about global-climate change.
by Auden Schendler, Apr 30, 2007 -
Fire and the warming West
The writer says this summer's wildfires reflect the increasing impacts from drought and global climate change
by Paul VanDevelder, Sep 25, 2006 -
California steps up to lead the nation
The writer salutes California for taking action on global warming and says that the notion of Western "exceptionalism" is dead
by Matt Jenkins, Sep 04, 2006 -
Reborn
With global warming an increasing threat, some are urging a return to nuclear energy, but the industry’s own checkered past reminds us that a nuclear renaissance will be neither easy nor cheap
by Jonathan Thompson, Sep 04, 2006 -
Where there's fire, there's global warming
Climate scientist Anthony Westerling is working to illuminate the connection between rising global temperatures and the increasing ferocity of the West’s forest fires
by Matt Jenkins, Aug 07, 2006
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