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Around 20,000 people marched in London on Saturday to protest against climate change ahead of a two week-long U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen starting on Monday. A Greenpeace demonstration in Paris drew 1,500 people.
After languishing on the market for more than two years, The Peaks sold on Wednesday to a group of local investors for a reported $20 million — less than half the price of bids in late 2007 and some $80 million less than the hotel was built for in the early ‘90s.
Richard Moe — the national force who brought the Valley Floor crusade to the country’s attention — retired on Tuesday from his post as president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, D.C.
1750 _ Before Industrial Revolution, atmosphere holds 280 parts per million of heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2). 1898 _ Swedish scientist Svante Ahrrenius calculates that CO2 from coal and oil burning will warm the planet. 1955 _ U.S. scientist Charles...
The Peaks is widely rumored to sell Wednesday for some $20 million, but who’s in line to buy the region’s largest hotel is unclear.
It looks like the sun will soon be heating things up at Artman Lutheran Home in Ambler, after the organization received a state grant for a solar thermal system.
For 20 years, as this crowded planet grew warmer, nations have gathered annually to try to do something about it. History now brings them to this chilly northern capital, and to a crossroads.
In the mountains, a 4x4 SUV is almost a necessity if you plan to drive when it’s snowy. But if you live almost anywhere else, the “gas guzzlers” are a target of green scorn.
LIHU‘E — A pair of species known to live in or visit Kaua‘i are on the top 10 list of America’s threatened species already suffering from the effects of global warming, according to a report released Tuesday.
The Open Space Fund, which is where the town of Telluride finds money to acquire, purchase and maintain its Bear Creeks and Valley Floors, has been feeling the pinch of the economic downturn.
In Telluride, it’s not easy being green. This is a town that loves its electricity, powering everything from saunas and hot tubs to the ski lifts and gondola that ferry us around.
Sea-floor seismometers open window into Earth's mantle beneath Hawaiian Islands.
Concerning the issue of Man-made Climate Change, which is at the center of the proposed Cap and Trade legislation, there have been significant developments since I wrote Parts 1 & 2.
HONOLULU — The state Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife will hold a public hearing at 6 p.m. on Thursday at Chiefess Kamakahelei Middle School in Lihu‘e to receive public testimony on the Draft Short-Term Seabird Habitat Conservation Plan for Kaua‘i Island Utility Cooperative, a DLNR press release states.
On Saturday, people around the world with gather on beaches and highways, in cities and churches and atop mountains in an effort to mobilize world leaders to find effective solutions to reverse climate change.
The Mendocino and Shasta-Trinity National Forests will be selling vehicles, miscellaneous equipment and office furniture, to the highest Internet bidder in an auction that began in November.
The United States Forest Service removed Lower Bear Creek’s veil on Wednesday, making the tempting terrain legal to ski this winter by adding two backcountry gates — into Reggae and Contention — just off the top of Lift 9.
Congressman John Salazar , D-Colo., introduced the San Juan Mountains Wilderness Bill in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday in Washington, paving the way for more protection of more than 60,000 acres in the Telluride region.
Missouri Western State University students remove woody vegetation on a loess hill. Photo Credit: FWS
Funding recipients are now accepting bids for diesel equipment
The Mountain Village Town Council unanimously voted on Thursday to ask for an end to hunting on the wooded parcel adjacent to the Valley Floor lying between Telluride and Mountain Village known as “the Wedge.”
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