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A flight above the Grand Canyon and Little Colorado River

December 1, 2021 News & Media by Adrian Skabelund (Arizona Daily Sun)

Click here for original post The Grand Canyon Trust organized a flight over the Grand Canyon through non-profit EcoFlight. The flight took several members of the media, an author and a local film-maker near the Grand Canyon and over both the Little Colorado River and Pinyon Plain Uranium Mine on December 1. The Confluence The aqua blue ...

Senators urge increased production of fossil fuels in reaction to spiraling energy costs

November 17, 2021 News & Media by Jacob Fischler (Colorado Newsline)

Click here for original article Hearing on rising oil prices comes days after critical COP26 climate summit Sen. John Hickenlooper questions an expert panel on rising oil prices in a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on Nov. 16, 2021. (Screenshot) Days after global leaders agreed for the first time to decrease coal usage ...

Plans To Dig the Biggest Lithium Mine in the US Face Mounting Opposition

November 7, 2021 News & Media by Cayte Bosler (Inside Climate News)

Click here for original post Resistance to Lithium Americas’ plans to dig an element critical to the energy transition at Nevada’s Thacker Pass shows that “clean” energy could face the same challenges as fossil fuels. People dance together at the protest camp at Thacker Pass, Nevada on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021. Earlier in the day ...

‘A ticking time bomb for a mass die-off’

November 4, 2021 News & Media by Paige Blankenbuehler (High Country News)

Click here for original post Recent grazing decisions continue to risk Southwest Colorado’s bighorns. The edge of a grazing allotment permitted to Etchart Sheep Ranch turns into rugged San Juan Mountain terrain. A few years ago, one bighorn ram traveled for more than 60 miles across this area, which is not considered bighorn habitat by ...

The nation’s last uranium mill plans to import Estonia’s radioactive waste

November 1, 2021 News & Media by Jessica Douglas (High Country News)

Utah says the White Mesa Mill isn’t contaminating groundwater, but its neighbor, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, disagrees. Click here for original post On a warm July evening, Yolanda Badback described the noxious fumes that haunt the air where she lives. Unlike the fragrance of sagebrush or the sweet scent of juniper and piñon, the odor ...

PRB coal sales steady as Peabody nets $679M for 3Q2021

October 28, 2021 News & Media by Ryan Lewallen (County 17 News)

Click here for original post An aerial view of Peabody Energy’s North Antelope Rochelle Mine. (Powder River Basin Resource Council) Peabody Energy coal sales from the Powder River Basin (PRB) held steady during the third quarter of 2021 (3Q2021) with total revenues from all segments exceeding $679 million, the company announced Thursday. This past quarter, ...

GUEST OPINION: BLM MOVING AHEAD ON EASTERN COLORADO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLAN

October 27, 2021 News & Media by Paul Tanner (Ark Valley Voice)

Click here for original post A view of Table Mountain, Image courtesy of Ecoflight It sounds like the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is moving forward with their Eastern Colorado Resource Management Plan (ECRMP), which began in 2015, and once complete, will guide management for nearly 670,000 acres of public land, with the majority of ...

Learning about the Valley’s water from above

October 19, 2021 News & Media by Alamosa Citizen (Alamosa Citizen)

Click here for original post OCTOBER 19, 2021 Salazar Center and EcoFlight supportWater Studies minor at Adams State Flying above the San Juan Mountains, over the pivots, small houses and tiny cows on the Valley floor, and feeling the rise and fall of elevation in my stomach and the jostling reminder of turbulence, there isa ...

Streamflows in southern half of upper Colorado River basin declining faster

October 18, 2021 News & Media by Heather Sackett (Aspen Journalism)

Data could factor into how water managers develop a plan for shortages Click here for original post Rafters float down the Colorado River in Glenwood Canyon.Chelsea Self / Post Independent New climate data that shows a north/south split in streamflow declines in the Colorado River basin could have implications for water managers as they navigate ...

Exploring an epic Colorado river during record-breaking drought

October 5, 2021 News & Media by PETE MCBRIDE (National Geographic)

Climate change is sucking water from the West’s beloved rivers, but there are lessons to be found in the change. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/exploring-an-epic-colorado-river-during-record-breaking-drought On the third day of a six-day trip down the Yampa River, we started walking. A slurry of flash rainstorms had rattled our tents the night before and raised our hopes the river would ...

A flight above the Grand Canyon and Little Colorado River

Senators urge increased production of fossil fuels in reaction to spiraling energy costs

Plans To Dig the Biggest Lithium Mine in the US Face Mounting Opposition

‘A ticking time bomb for a mass die-off’

The nation’s last uranium mill plans to import Estonia’s radioactive waste

PRB coal sales steady as Peabody nets $679M for 3Q2021

GUEST OPINION: BLM MOVING AHEAD ON EASTERN COLORADO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLAN

Learning about the Valley’s water from above

Streamflows in southern half of upper Colorado River basin declining faster

Exploring an epic Colorado river during record-breaking drought

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