Climate Change

Climate change is putting pressure on trails, bridges and roads across the West. The Mountain West News Bureau spoke this week with U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg about federal efforts to help address the issue.

A team of scientists, including CSU professor Rick Aster, recently spent years peering beneath the largest mass of ice on Earth. What they found under Antarctica’s massive glaciers could help predict how climate change will impact sea levels around the world. We hear more, on today's In The NoCo.

As students head back to class, a new report shows that climate change is making it harder to keep schools at cool and safe temperatures.

Climate change can damage your mental health. That’s led to a nationwide rise in support groups called “climate cafes,” where people can discuss their anxiety and fears about the climate crisis, and learn techniques to cope.

As heatwaves and wildfires scorch parts of the West, a new survey shows most Americans have recent experiences with extreme weather. It also reveals they now support policy changes to address the risk. But the more forceful the policy, the less the support.

Over the last 30 years, concentrations of toxic metals like zinc and copper have doubled in some of Colorado’s high mountain streams. Researchers blame climate change.

Tribal communities across the country are being allocated $45 billion for “climate resiliency.” This includes big projects such as improving community electric grids and creating solar, wind and battery storage.

Many parts of the West are in for at least a weekend of extreme heat – with daily temperatures exceeding normal readings by as much as 35 degrees. The group Climate Central says that 40 million people in the region are set to experience heat made at least three times more likely by human-caused climate change.

The Heat Resilience Lab in Las Vegas is one such project, and it is taking a closer look at "urban heat islands" — places in cities that don't have as many natural features to mitigate heat and are hotter than surrounding areas.

Front Range gas prices are lower than a year ago despite requirement for “reformulated gas” that reduces ozone-causing emissions.