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Created: Fri, 02 Dec 2022 17:29:46 +0000
Author: Jennifer McDermott
On Friday afternoon more than 2,000 experts will wrap up a week of negotiations on plastic pollution at one of the largest global gatherings ever to address what even industry leaders in plastics say is a crisis.
Read more: Negotiations begin for a global treaty on plastic pollution
Created: Fri, 02 Dec 2022 13:00:20 +0000
Author: Bruce Finley
Colorado wildlife managers are mobilizing to reverse a decline of elk in the southwestern quarter of the state by controlling hunting and protecting wild habitat, aiming for increased calf survival amid intensifying droughts and development.
Created: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 23:05:13 +0000
Author: Noelle Phillips
Thick clouds of steam billowed over Commerce City on Wednesday morning and combined with a bad smell to cause concern among residents who live near the Suncor Energy oil refinery.
Read more: Cold temperatures cause extra large vapor clouds over Suncor refinery, Xcel plant
Created: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 19:27:31 +0000
Author: Conrad Swanson
During the winter months the apex predators – meaning top of the food chain – head to lower elevations in search of food.
Read more: Mountain lions to be more active around Boulder during winter season, city officials say
Created: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 23:02:29 +0000
Author: Conrad Swanson
Something killed dozens of cattle around White River National Forest lands in northwest Colorado and state wildlife officials don’t know what it is.
Read more: “It’s perplexing”: What’s killing dozens of cows near Meeker? State officials don’t know.
Created: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 13:00:59 +0000
Author: Noelle Phillips
The increasing risk of wildfires in Colorado is driving insurance carriers to raise premiums on homeowners’ policies -- if they decide to insure them at all — and now the state’s insurance chief is suggesting a publicly funded pool of money be established to provide property insurance for those who can’t find it in the open market.
Created: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 13:00:59 +0000
Author: John Aguilar
Lulu Guerrero wakes up at her home in Wiggins, sometimes as early as 3 a.m., to get out to the farm fields that spread across Weld County in every direction and start her days planting and harvesting watermelons, onions, tomatoes, cucumbers and pumpkins. Guerrero, who illegally entered the United States nearly 20 years ago and has worked in Colorado's $41 billion a year agricultural industry ever since, lives in constant worry about her future and that of the hundreds of thousands of other immigrant farm workers who labor in America's farm fields. "We were called essential during the pandemic -- all we want is the opportunity to get out of the shadows and stay in the country," she said through a translator on the phone last week.
Created: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 13:00:33 +0000
Author: John Aguilar
Last year, the state diverted 16% of its municipal solid waste away from the landfill, coming in at half the national average of 32%, according to the 2022 State of Recycling & Composting in Colorado report.
Created: Tue, 08 Nov 2022 13:00:07 +0000
Author: John Aguilar
Commerce City joined nearly half a dozen other metro Denver municipalities Monday night with passage by its city council of an urban camping ban. The city's ban, which applies to both private and public property, is set to take effect in 30 days.
Read more: Commerce City latest metro Denver community to prohibit urban camping
Created: Fri, 04 Nov 2022 12:00:49 +0000
Author: John Aguilar
After nearly four years of battle between Larimer County and Thornton over the city's efforts to pipe water from the Cache la Poudre River, home builders warn that the standoff risks worsening the state's affordable housing crisis.