They found Randy Udall yesterday -- he had been hiking alone on a remote trail up in Wyoming's Wind River Range, a place he knew well. Poles were still in hand, the Denver Post reports.
"Randy left this Earth doing what he loved most: hiking in his most favorite mountain range in the world," the Udall…
A few months ago, Micah Williams, TEDxMileHigh's newest (and only full-time) employee, asked if I might write a blog post about climate change. I said "sure," and then I thought about what I could say about climate change that wasn't being said.
I used to cover the topic at the Daily Camera, and still follow it…
A politically neutral map of record temperatures in the United States, courtesy of Climate Central.
If you're in Virginia, check it out before the state legislature bans the use of the term "record temperature" in reference to record temperatures.
From the unintended (or probably intended, given the source) irony department: the first three news items from the Society of Environmental Journalists' e-mail summary this a.m. For those living in caves and U.S. Senators from Oklahoma: heat waves such as the one stoking the wildfires in Colorado and intense storms like those we're seeing in Florida and…
Washington D.C. hit 99 degrees Fahrenheit today; we in Denver have been in that neighborhood a few days already this June, and are headed back this weekend. The average June high is here supposed to be 83. We've had roughly zero precip; the potted plants wilt within a hours of a soaking.
So let's say we're…