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As the climate crisis worsens, Pitkin County is working with a group of local stakeholders to capture a large amount of methane that has been leaking out of abandoned coal mines in the Coal Basin area above the town of Redstone.
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Our public lands are at the heart of what makes the Roaring Fork Valley a unique place, but many people face barriers to enjoying them. At the same time, climate change has arrived — and it’s not impacting everyone equally.
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As a few lifts at the Aspen Mountain and Snowmass ski areas prepare to open for the winter season on Thanksgiving Day, Aspen Public Radio talked with Aspen Skiing Company's head of communications about a range of issues.
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Aspen Public Radio visited with local Aspen residents Weston Boyles and Jacquelyn Francis, who attended the climate-change conference held over the past two weeks in Glasgow, Scotland.
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A phenomenon called sudden aspen decline, which is driven by worsening drought and climate change, has been impacting the trees across Colorado. With that in mind, the U.S. Forest Service is proposing an effort called the White River Aspen Management Project. Specifically, the agency has identified 375,000 acres where it could potentially treat aspens with prescribed burns and tree harvesting.
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Monitoring over the last decade has shown that air quality in the Roaring Fork Valley has been good overall, but that’s changing as the human-caused climate crisis intensifies the size and frequency of wildfires across the West.
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When it comes to water in the West, a lot of it is visible. Snow stacks up high in the mountains then eventually melts and flows down into valleys. It’s…
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If you find yourself wandering the streets of Aspen, Carbondale, or Glenwood Springs this month, you will be greeted by collages of oversized…
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With the ongoing drought in Pitkin, Eagle and Garfield counties and across most of the West, growing food and raising livestock is becoming more…
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The Community Office For Resource Efficiency (CORE) is launching a valley-wide art installation to tell the story of climate change, in partnership with a…