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A ‘Critical Moment’ for the Colorado River
WASHINGTON, DC, May 23, 2023 (ENS) – The Colorado River flows for 1,450 miles across the western United States, carving the Grand Canyon on the way, and into Mexico, where [...]
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COLORADO: Wild Horses Get New Refuge Larger Than Manhattan
CRAIG, Colorado, March 23, 2023 (ENS) – The nonprofit Wild Animal Sanctuary has just acquired a large piece of land in northwest Colorado near the historic town of Steamboat Springs [...]
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First WMO Global Water Analysis Finds a Drying World
GENEVA, Switzerland, November 29, 2022 (ENS) – Most of the planet was drier than normal in 2021, with “cascading effects on economies, ecosystems and our daily lives,” the UN World [...]
Land Use/Forests
Biden Rouses Tribal Protests With 1st Monument Designation
LEADVILLE, Colorado, October 14, 2022 (ENS) – President Joe Biden established the first new national monument of his presidency on Wednesday – the 53,800-acre Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument in [...]
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COLORADO: Feds, Corps Agree $90M to Clean Mine Waste Spills
SILVERTON, Colorado, January 22, 2022 (ENS) – Mine waste cleanup work at the Bonita Peak Mining District Superfund site near Silverton will be supported by $90 million – half from [...]
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COLORADO: Mudslides After Wildfire Trap Motorists, Close Highway
GOLDEN, Colorado, August 4, 2021 (ENS) – Mudslides stranded motorists overnight Thursday and shut down an interstate highway in Colorado, and after the latest round of heavy rain and flooding [...]
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Rampaging Fires Send U.S. Western Forests Up in Smoke
EUGENE, Oregon, September 8, 2020 (ENS) – Smoke filled the air in this university city on Tuesday, turning the sky orange and the sun red, as it did across [...]