Climate Change

Despite all of the snow and cold snaps across the Mountain West, many cities are experiencing fewer nights at or below 32 degrees due to climate change. It’s a warming trend that has a wide range of impacts.

Researchers now link the death of thousands of birds migrating across New Mexico in 2020 to extreme temperature and climate conditions. The event inspired a partnership between Los Alamos National Laboratory and New Mexico State University to study "disaster ecology."

KDNK’s reporter Hattison Rensberry brings you local and regional news from the Mountain West

Researchers are traversing Western mountains to better understand snow algae – and whether its blooms are hastening the melting of mountain snowpack.

KDNK's Morgan Neely brings listeners Wednesday's news, including the Biden Administration getting ramped up to lease hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands in our region to oil and gas companies. And, we explore measures dozens of stakeholders are pursuing to protect the Dolores River.

Polling data shows that many voters of color in the Mountain West were influenced by climate change more than the electorate at large during the 2022 midterm elections.

The world’s population reached 8 billion this week, just as the 27th annual United Nations climate summit was wrapping up in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Aspen Public Radio talked with local residents who have been attending COP27 over the past two weeks.

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Mountain West

A recent study found that when mountain goats and bighorn sheep compete over mineral sources at high elevations, it’s the goats that usually go home happy.

The location and proximity of homes destroyed in the Marshall Fire highlight the importance of fire mitigation efforts while building – and the possible long-term saving in planning for fire.