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Book chronicles businessmen who led fracking boom

Gregory Zuckerman’s book The Frackers tells the unexpected story of how a once-obscure method of producing oil and natural gas from shale rock led to a huge American energy boom – and to a b...

DATE: Nov 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Earth Briefs

Mountain Studies to discuss programs San Juan/Four Corners Native Plant Society will present “Forests, Fens and Medicinal Plants” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Lyceum Room of the ...

DATE: Nov 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

UN: Besides Haiyan, 2013 storm season near average

STOCKHOLM – Apart from Typhoon Haiyan, which has devastated the Philippines, it’s been an average year for tropical cyclones, the U.N. weather agency said Wednesday in its annual climate rep...

DATE: Nov 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Economy makes $2B from wildlife refuges

WASHINGTON – Bird watching, hunting or just picnicking. Whatever the reason, visits to the nation’s 561 wildlife refuges are big business. A new report says visitors to federal wi...

DATE: Nov 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Nuclear power receives backing

Experts say wind, solar not enough to slow warming

DATE: Nov 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Environmental crime costs world billions

17,000 elephants killed illegally in Africa

DATE: Nov 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

World carbon pollution hits record

Heat-trapping gas hits 393 parts per million

DATE: Nov 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Warming report sees dangerous future

WASHINGTON – Starvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, war and disease already lead to human tragedies. They’re likely to worsen as the world warms from human-made climate change,...

DATE: Nov 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Polar bear researchers can use your pictures

Webcam photos will be collected to study effects of shrinking ice

DATE: Nov 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Pumpkin tests those who dare to guess weight

By Root Routledge How hard is it to guess the weight of a giant pumpkin? More than 200 people tested their powers of estimation earlier this month at the sixth annual A...

DATE: Oct 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Clues found to aid forecasting killer heat waves

WASHINGTON – Meteorologists may have found a way to predict some killer heat waves up to three weeks in advance. Now, the best they can do is about 10 days. An earlier warning wou...

DATE: Oct 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Farm waste taints park

Ammonia to blame for Rocky Mountain National pollution

DATE: Oct 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

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