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Rangelands cover 50 percent of the earth’s land surface, including much of the Roaring Fork Valley. But these ecosystems — a critical carbon sink — are under threat as climate change worsens.

Since October 2023, Aspen has required restaurants to compost, keeping thousands of tons of organic material out of the landfill and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Aspen Mountain will be the only Aspen Snowmass resort open for lift-served skiing starting on Monday, April 6. It is currently scheduled to close on April 19.

Snowmass patroller Katy Willcox has ski patrolled for a decade. As climate change makes winters increasingly unreliable, she decided that this season will be her last.

The Carbondale-based nonprofit offers free screenprinting on most Saturdays and at some community events. This story is part of our “On the Ground” radio series, which highlights solutions to local and global issues from Roaring Fork and Colorado River valley organizations.

Highlands’ closure comes a few days after Buttermilk Mountain closed for the season. It marks the end of a historically warm ski season for the mountain.

The unseasonal warmth that broke longstanding temperature records across the West last week was a hit to Colorado’s already low snowpack. Climate change drove the heat wave, but scientists say it’s still an outlier in today’s world.

A record-breaking heat dome brought high temperatures that melted the snowpack considerably in the days leading up to the mountain’s closure.

More children are surviving pediatric cancer, but the physical and emotional impacts still linger. The Shining Stars Foundation provides those patients with recreational programs in the Rocky Mountains. This story is part of our “On the Ground” radio series, which highlights solutions to local and global issues from Roaring Fork and Colorado River valley organizations.

The historic heat wave that hit the western U.S. last week was made at least five times more likely due to climate change. Scientists say it would have been “virtually impossible” in a world without human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.