environment and nature
-
With funding run short, Fountain Creek Watershed District looks to new source
Editor’s note: The $50 million allotment that started the Fountain Creek Watershed District in 2009 offset impacts to the creek from the Southern Delivery System, a regional water project that moves water north from the Pueblo Reservoir. A special district that has been managing conservation projects on Fountain Creek for nearly two decades is pushing…
-
West megadrought worsens to driest in at least 1,200 years
The American West’s megadrought deepened so much last year that it is now the driest in at least 1,200 years and is a worst-case climate change scenario playing out live, a new study finds. A dramatic drying in 2021 – about as dry as 2002 and one of the driest years ever recorded for the…