Environment - The Durango Herald

Durango High School students cleanup trash at campuses

Club tries to promote environmental sustainability in a nonpartisan way

DATE: Dec 1, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

U.S. gives protections to rare Midwest bird as prairie suffers

Prairie chicken’s range includes oil-rich Permian Basin

DATE: Nov 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

City of Durango works with 4CORE on Green Business Certification program

Measuring sustainability is tougher than one might think

DATE: Nov 16, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Neighbors organize to halt Hesperus solar installation

Company plans estimated 500,000 panels in southwest La Plata County, but residents worry about environmental impacts

DATE: Nov 13, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Table to Farm Compost booms with new subscribers

City of Durango partnership helps eco-thoughtful business net 250 more customers

DATE: Nov 3, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado Parks and Wildlife funds countywide efforts to reduce human-bear conflict

City of Durango puts $60,000 toward expansion of secure trash containers

DATE: Nov 1, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Wildlife numbers on the decline in Southwest Colorado, plummeting worldwide

Species threatened locally include Gunnison sage-grouse, Townsend’s big-eared bat and Humpback chub

DATE: Oct 27, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Western tribes march against uranium mill in southeast Utah

Indigenous communities worry about air, water quality; mill owners defend operations as safe

DATE: Oct 24, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Wolf Creek Village plan loses third legal fight for access road atop Wolf Creek Pass

Texas billionaire has spent 36 years vying for access to an inholding where he plans a resort village for 10,000 residents

DATE: Oct 24, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado’s official state fish makes second comeback after previously thought extinct

Wildlife officials report a breeding population of greenback cutthroat trout

DATE: Sep 27, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado is falling behind on its mandate to cut greenhouse gases

New state assessment shows big gaps in goals for transportation emissions

DATE: Sep 19, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

A new mosquito is stalking New Mexico. Is the state ready?

Climate change creates a hospitable environment as United Nations warns of potential for disease spread

DATE: Sep 12, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Photos: An afternoon in 2004 with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell as he works on Capitol HillDurango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Durango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Photos and video: ICE protests return to DurangoAbout a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday