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Lenzing is turning used biodegradable geotextiles that safeguard glaciers into garments to give them a second life.

Lenzing collaborated with Candiani Denim, Blue of a Kind to launch 'Glacier Jacket,' Chargeurs partnered with fashion schools including Central Saint Martins on sustainability eduction program.

The European Commission seeks to help small textiles businesses adapt with a new research and innovation program.

Jim Lochhead, Denver Waters CEO and manager, announced Thursday he plans to step down from the utility once the board of water commissioners finds a successor.

Climate change is unfolding right before our very eyes. And for Denver Water it is serious business. Experts in Colorado point to rising...

Drought-stricken Colorado River Basin could see additional 20% drop in water flow by 2050 This is what climate change has brought. “Aridification” is what Bradley Udall formally calls the situation in the western U.S. But perhaps more accurately, he calls it hot drought – heat-induced lack of water due to climate change. That was the core of research released in 2017 by Udall, a senior climate and water scientist at Colorado State University’s Colorado Water Center, and Jonathan Overpec...

Yves here. In parts of the West, water rights have long been hotly contested. Potable water is the natural resource that is projected to come into serious shortage first. That makes management of resources like the Colorado River of critical importance, yet the bodies responsible for its stewardship are late to come to grips with the impact of perma-droughts By Jan Ellen Spiegel. Originally published at Yale Climate Connections Colorado is no stranger to drought. The current one is closing in o...