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Colorado’s Bold New Approach to Highways — Not Building Them

The state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit. #Climate Change #Colorado #Global Warming #Transportation

2024-05-31T02:00:29-0700 The New York Times Megan Kimble 3,000 words

Rated 2024-06-01T17:50:32-0700

Vaclav Smil and the Value of Doubt

David Owen interviews the author and scientist Vaclav Smil, whose books on environmental issues include “Size: How It Explains the World” and “How the World Really Works.” #Climate Change #Environmentalism #Renewable energy #Science

2024-02-20T03:00:00-0800 The New Yorker David Owen 4,000 words

Rated 2024-03-19T22:44:49-0700

America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow

Unchecked overuse is draining and damaging aquifers nationwide, a data investigation by the New York Times revealed, threatening millions of people and America’s status as a food superpower. #Agriculture #Climate Change #Global Warming #Water

2023-08-28T14:19:48-0700 The New York Times Mira Rojanasakul, Christopher Flavelle, Blacki Migliozzi, ... ($) 5,000 words

Rated 2023-09-26T07:16:33-0700

Is It Hot Enough Yet for Politicians to Take Real Action?

Bill McKibben writes on the recent temperature records set amid a global heat wave, on a global cascade of climate-change-related floods and disasters, and the lack of political will in Canada and the U.S. to take on the needed confrontation of oil and gas interests. #Canada #Climate Change #Global Warming #Wildfire

2023-07-11T11:18:01-0700 The New Yorker Bill McKibben 2,000 words

Rated 2023-07-12T09:00:10-0700