Climate Change Resources

With the arrival of spring in North America, many people are gravitating to the gardening and landscaping section of home improvement stores, where displays are overstocked with eye-catching seed packs and benches are filled with potted annuals and perennials…

“We saw extraordinary land, sea surface temperatures, extraordinary ocean heat accompanied by very extreme weather affecting many countries around the world, destroying lives, livelihoods, hopes and dreams,” WMO spokesperson Clare Nullis said. “We saw many climate change impacts retreating sea ice glaciers. It was an extraordinary year.”

The science of climate change is more solid and widely agreed upon than you might think. But the scope of the topic, as well as rampant disinformation, can make it hard to separate fact from fiction.

Record drought in the American West contributes to a growing number of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters across the country. The quickening pace of large-scale events makes a recovery slower and pricier, according to a new report…

Scientists worldwide are striving to learn more about how rising average temperatures worldwide influence the weather. They say it's increasingly likely that climate change is making weather events more intense, more frequent or of longer duration.

Learn about trees for Conservation. The program aims to encourage landowners to plant new forests; establish effective windbreaks to reduce erosion; protect homes, cropland, livestock, and highways; and enhance wildlife habitat.

This is one in a series of regional native planting guides that collaborate with the Colorado Native Plant Society, CSU Extension, Front Range Wild Ones, the High Plains Environmental Center, Butterfly Pavilion and the Denver Botanic Gardens.

Thanks to the support of the Durango City Council and the Citizens of Durango, the City has been recognized as a Tree City USA since 1980 and through working with the Public Works Department to minimize…