climate change

Ken Salazar assails Trump’s ‘project of erasure’ in new book, promotes unity
Former Colorado attorney general, U.S. senator and ambassador to Mexico, has a book coming out:...

Three Colorado coal plants are staying open longer. Experts say that only prolongs their impacts on public health.
“Ultimately, the longer these plants operate, people will get sick, and people will die,” Sheryl...

How sports betting became Colorado’s ticket to funding $140 million in water conservation projects
Supporters say the gambling money is a godsend. Critics say legalized sports betting has come...

Gross Dam’s $600 million expansion is largely done. Will Denver Water ever get to fill its expanded reservoir?
It remains unclear whether Denver Water will ever be able to fill the reservoir to...

These Colorado essential workers can do their jobs because they have childcare: ‘It’s vital’
Fourteen percent of Colorado children under 5 are in families where one or both caretakers...

El Nino is here and scientists fear it’ll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires
Meteorologists forecast it will rival — or exceed — a record El Nino that began...

Colorado’s biggest outdoor adventure festival returns this weekend
Colorado's premier celebration of the outdoor adventure lifestyle returns for its third year this weekend...

Releasing cool water protects fish in the Grand Canyon. That comes at cost to hydropower
Tradeoffs are increasingly impossible to avoid as the Colorado River continues to decline.

Atlantic hurricane season forecast to be milder than normal thanks to El Nino
The Atlantic hurricane season starts June 1 and ends November 30.

Climate scientists update predictions, with 2015 goal no longer plausible
Scientists jettisoned worst- and best-case scenarios for global warming.