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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – The U.S. Forest Service released an environmental review Jan. 15 that paves the way for the creation of one of the largest copper mines in the United States, against the wishes...
DATE: Jan. 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
For Dan Caplin with Colorado Addiction Treatment Services, treating people addicted to opioids is complicated to say the least. “This is so multifactorial,” he said, before listing about 10 local...
DATE: Jan. 21, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health
The world’s vital insect kingdom is undergoing “death by a thousand cuts,” the world’s top bug experts said. Climate change, insecticides, herbicides, light pollution, invasive species and changes...
DATE: Jan. 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
COLORADO SPRINGS (AP) – Scott Fitzwilliams was supposed to be off work. But as supervisor of America’s most trafficked national forest, “you’re never off work,” he said. So there he was Fourth of...
DATE: Jan. 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
BILLINGS, Mont. – Wildfire smoke accounted for up to half of all health-damaging small particle air pollution in the western U.S. in recent years as warming temperatures fueled more destructive...
DATE: Jan. 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
The Environmental Protection Agency plans this summer to drill into the collapsed entrance of a mine near Silverton that’s at risk of a blowout. If the situation sounds familiar, it is. The EPA in...
DATE: Jan. 14, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
The Dolores and Colorado rivers could face lower water quality according to a recent decision by the Bureau of Reclamation that could cause the closure of the Paradox Valley Salinity Control...
DATE: Jan. 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
The amount of baked-in global warming, from carbon pollution already in the air, is enough to blow past international agreed upon goals to limit climate change, a new study finds. But it’s not game...
DATE: Jan. 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
SANTA FE (AP) – The son of a Chevrolet assembly line worker, Rick Smith grew up hunting squirrels, rabbits, grouse and deer in upstate New York, but the words of Jack O’Connor took him on hunts to...
DATE: Jan. 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
In late summer, as researchers accelerated the first clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines for humans, a group of scientists in Colorado worked to inoculate a far more fragile species. About 120...
DATE: Jan. 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
With 2020 in the rearview mirror, it’s time to look at the most pressing environmental issues that face Southwest Colorado in the year to come, and there’s no shortage of them. How will the...
DATE: Dec. 31, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
The pandemic transformed our lives in 2020. In March, we were told to stay home. Schools closed, restaurants went dark, workplaces emptied out. Zoom meetings became the way to do business and...
DATE: Dec. 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
