Environmentalism

The Energy Department announced an initiative to help build the nascent market for removing carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere, awarding up to $1.2 billion for two consortiums to build commercial-scale direct air capture hubs. What do…

President Joe Biden visited Arizona Tuesday to designate a new national monument spanning about 1 million acres over the state’s northwest region. The new monument, named Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon…

Image CreditPhoto taken by author I’m an enthusiastic outdoorsman and avid environmentalist. But even more so, I’m a die-hard social justice warrior. So it was with great interest that I clicked on a link to NBC News last week…

There’s been a lot of focus on the weather recently. It’s summer, so it’s hot in some parts. But the official line is that the temperatures are unprecedented and the result of — you guessed it — climate change. Like clockwork,…

The U.S. Forest Service revealed Monday the agency caused a New Mexico wildfire in the spring of last year that burned across 60 square miles and almost reached Los Alamos. The Cerro Pelado fire, which burned in April 2022 under dry and…

A panel of scientists recently claimed that humans’ effect on the planet is so significant it should be memorialized through the creation of a new geological epoch that began sometime in the middle of the 20th century. As we speak, climate…

The skies are dark and hazy across the Midwest after inducing eerie yellow billows across the North and East. Residents of Western states such as California and Montana are used to such evidence of wildfires, but not residents of Midwestern…

After outcry from Western constituencies and their representatives in Congress, the Bureau of Land Management has extended the public comment period on its proposed public lands rule that threatens to upend those Americans’ way of life.…

I’ve been covering wildfires in the American west for three years now. On Tuesday, I moved outside of Denver to a property adjacent to Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests west of Boulder. The first thing I did while unpacking was pack a…

In 2013, Business Insider envisioned the “Home of the Future,” complete with remote-controlled appliances, advanced sensors, and personal robots. It was the stuff of science fiction then, but today, it’s far closer to reality. Surely…