Rifle High School students receive a pre-flight tutorial at the Rifle Garfield County Airport.Ray K. Erku / Citizen Telegram Wearing an aviation headset, Joshua Thorpe tilted his head toward the window and peered at the mountainous landscape thousands of feet below. Vast rows of solar panels soaked up the sun, emerald pools of water sat ...

Atmospheric methane — the very potent “other” greenhouse gas — is rising at a shocking rate. Research fingers fracking as a major culprit. https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/dont-let-late-wintry-weather-fool-you-global-warmings-still-here-thanks-in Natural gas, which consists primarily of the potent greenhouse gas methane, is flared off at dusk in western Colorado’s Piceance Basin. As crude oil production has outpaced construction of infrastructure to ...

https://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/flights-over-north-bay-provide-graphic-evidence-of-needed-wildfire-protection/article_d21de5cb-04d7-589d-b3ee-bf21d30438cb.html PETALUMA — The scars left behind by North Bay wildfires, and the expanses of woodland still green but ever vulnerable, can be better appreciated from hundreds of feet above. So says a nonprofit that advocates for the protection of wildlands — and of swaths of the Western states increasingly threatened by devastating firestorms — through ...

Captain’s Log Starship 1XE, Day 19 in the month April, Earth Calendar year 2021. Technology is our friend and aviation has always been at the forefront of many innovative changes. Commercial flying is on the way to becoming totally automated. When one flies above and through the clouds in our air traffic control system, one relies ...

https://weather.com/photos/news/2021-05-13-sonoma-county-burn-scars-aerials An aerial view of wildfire burn scars from the Glass Fire are seen in Sonoma County, Calif., on Wednesday, May 12, 2021. Bruce Gordon, EcoFlight founder, executive director and pilot, and Dr. Sasha Berleman, director of Fire Forward at Audubon Canyon Ranch, took members of the media aboard a flight out of Petaluma Municipal ...