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• Aspen Ski Area rallies to highlight climate change

  May 6, 2012 10:50 AM

  ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - Aspen Ski Area hosted a ski race without snow Saturday to highlight the effect climate change has on the outdoor recreation industry. Auden Schendler, Aspen Skiing Company's vice president of sustainability, says "climate change is already pounding businesses and communities, whether you're a ski resort, an... more »

• Colorado researchers study link between climate, wildfires

  September 2, 2010 8:39 AM

  Scientists in Montana, Colorado and Idaho are conducting a $3.85 million research project into how a changing climate will influence wildfires. Work started Wednesday on the project, which is being pursued in partnership with scientists in Australia and New Zealand. Montana State University professor Cathy Whitlock says the... more »

• Gov. Ritter to outline Colorado energy policies

  July 28, 2010 9:08 AM

  Gov. Bill Ritter will lay out Colorado's plan to develop clean energy sources at an international forum on Wednesday. The discussion is part of the 2010 Biennial of the Americas celebration taking place throughout July in Denver. Others attending the meeting include Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood; Federico Pena,... more »

• Colorado senators back EPA in global warming

  June 10, 2010 8:23 AM

  Colorado's two Democratic senators have affirmed support for federal environmental regulators as the Senate prepared to take its first vote on a measure some see as a test of the Senate's stand on climate change. Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet both have vowed to vote against a Republican-led... more »

• 2 more glaciers gone from Glacier National Park

  April 7, 2010 1:03 PM

  Scientists say Glacier National Park has lost two more of its namesake moving icefields to climate change, which is shrinking the rivers of ice until they grind to a halt. Researcher Dan Fagre said Wednesday that warmer temperatures have reduced the number of named glaciers in the northwestern Montana park... more »

• Conservationist: Colorado sees climate change effects

  February 8, 2010 10:00 AM

  The head of one of the country's largest conservation groups is warning that Colorado is in the "bull's eye of climate change" and says the state's hunters and anglers are seeing firsthand the effects of warmer temperatures. National Wildlife Federation President Larry Schweiger says the bark beetle infestation that has... more »

• Local reaction to State of the Union address

  January 28, 2010 8:51 AM

  Local republicans and democrats gathered at viewing parties around the region to watch the President's State of the Union speech. The largest republican gathering in Southern Colorado was at Mr. Biggs in Colorado Springs. Roughly 100 people showed up to hear the speech and many made it clear they... more »

• Former military commander warns against climate-security link

  January 27, 2010 6:35 PM

  The retired Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet is urging President Barack Obama to appoint an independent panel of experts to evaluate climate change before linking it to national security. Adm. James A. Lyons, Jr., USN (Ret.), released an open letter to President Barack Obama that reads, in part,... more »

• Scientist: Stolen e-mails show nasty politics of global warming

  November 24, 2009 8:00 AM

  A leading climate change scientist says hackers breaking into a university's computer server and then posting researchers' documents online show the "nasty" politics of global warming. Hackers broke into The University of East Anglia, in eastern England, and stole about a decade's worth of data from its Climatic Research... more »

• Conference spotlights climate change, carnivores

  November 18, 2009 7:59 AM

  An official with a national wildlife group says the effect of climate change on wildlife and their habitat looms as "the conservation challenge of our generation." Jamie Rappaport Clark, executive vice president of Defenders of Wildlife, said Tuesday that climate change is affecting species from the Arctic north to... more »

• Envoys scale back U.N. climate pact ambitions

  November 6, 2009 9:59 AM

  Negotiators and diplomats were working Thursday on a scaled-back version of a global climate change treaty that could be agreed by next month's deadline, without firm U.S. commitments. The idea of forging a political agreement, instead of a legally binding treaty, was becoming a more accepted possibility as negotiators... more »

• Climate concerns turn city's smell into cash cow

  October 18, 2009 11:20 AM

  The smell of manure hangs over Greeley as it has for half a century. These days it's more than just a potent reminder of the region's agricultural roots and the hundreds of thousands of cattle raised on the city's outskirts. The stench smells like an opportunity. Investors are lining... more »

• Biggest economies try again to strike climate deal

  October 18, 2009 6:55 AM

  Money is the key as representatives of the world's 17 biggest and most polluting nations gather in London Sunday to search for a breakthrough on financing efforts to combat global warming. Pressure has been mounting for the United States to finalize its position before a decisive December conference in Denmark... more »

• Maldives officials dive for climate change

  October 17, 2009 7:32 AM

  The president of the Maldives says he's trying to make people realize his low-lying island nation is a "frontline state" facing the threat of global warming. To that end, President Mohammed Nasheed convened a Cabinet meeting today about 20 feet deep at the bottom of a lagoon. The Maldives is... more »

• Alarming' melt of glaciers in Indian Kashmir

  October 13, 2009 2:26 PM

  Indian Kashmir's glaciers are melting fast because of rising temperatures, threatening the water supply of millions of people in the Himalayan region, a new study by Indian scientists says. The study by Kashmir University's geology and geophysics department blamed the effect on climate change, and said it endangered the... more »

• Mighty caribou herds dwindle, warming blamed

  October 5, 2009 8:42 AM

  Here on the endlessly rolling and tussocky terrain of northwest Canada, where man has hunted caribou since the Stone Age, the vast antlered herds are fast growing thin. And it's not just here. Across the tundra 1,500 kilometers (1,000 miles) to the east, Canada's Beverly herd, numbering more than... more »

• Obama adviser: No climate change law this year

  October 4, 2009 11:57 AM

  President Barack Obama's top energy adviser says there is no way Congress will be able to pass a bill on climate change this year. "That's not going to happen," the adviser, Carol Browner, said Friday. Browner made the statement at a conference organized by The Atlantic magazine, just... more »

• Climate change will cost billions to developing countries

  October 3, 2009 12:01 PM

  Developing countries will need to spend as much as 100 billion dollars a year for the next 40 years to adapt to more extreme and severe weather changes. That's according to a world bank study released on Wednesday. Despite previous estimates, the world bank said their latest projection came... more »

• EU says US must join climate funding

  October 2, 2009 12:15 PM

  The European Union says the United States should join it in stumping up cash to help poor developing nations to cope with climate change. Sweden's finance minister says Europe wanted the U.S. to "also put their weight behind the issue" ahead of global talks in December on a new pact... more »

• UN confronts climate change

  September 22, 2009 8:11 AM

  A day before world leaders start talking politics at the U.N. General Assembly, they'll confront global climate change. The U.N. climate chief says China may be leapfrogging ahead of the United States on legislation to address climate change. As the U.N. opens a one-day climate summit today, Yvo de Boer... more »

• Use condoms to help climate, experts urge

  September 20, 2009 11:11 AM

  Giving contraceptives to people in developing countries could help fight climate change by slowing population growth, the prestigious British medical journal Lancet said in an editorial Friday. More than 200 million women worldwide want contraceptives, but don't have access to them, according to Lancet. That results in 76 million... more »

• Drought keeps California salmon from spawning

  September 11, 2009 1:21 PM

  California's third year of drought has worsened the already dire outlook for endangered coho salmon, as coastal creeks used for spawning dwindle into disconnected pools where fish get trapped and die. On a hot summer afternoon about 40 miles north of San Francisco, a group armed with fishing nets... more »

• UK: Global deal on climate change may not happen

  September 8, 2009 10:25 AM

  Britain's Foreign Secretary says there is danger a United Nations conference in December won't strike a global deal on climate change. David Miliband said Tuesday the complexity of negotiations and disputes between industrialized and developing nations leave prospects for a deal "in the balance." He said they threaten to sink... more »