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  • Reborn

    With global warming an increasing threat, some are urging a return to nuclear energy, but the industry’s own checkered past reminds us that a nuclear renaissance will be neither easy nor cheap

    by Jonathan Thompson, Sep 04, 2006
  • Utah's ancient Lake Bonneville holds clues to the West's changing climate

    Utah's ancient Lake Bonneville holds clues to the West's changing climate

    In Utah, scientists are exploring the site of a long-vanished inland sea called Lake Bonneville to understand the West's past - and future - climate.

    by Douglas Fox, Nov 07, 2011

  • Western scientists study the past to predict the future

    Scientists are digging into the past of the West to try to understand what the future may bring.

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Oct 30, 2011

  • This mayor sees a different shade of green

    Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels is striving to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make his city environmentally sustainable

    by J.M. McCord, Jun 27, 2005
  • This Earth Day, it's all about the air

    This Earth Day, it's all about the air

    If you can take a nice deep breath and enjoy a clear blue sky, thank the Clean Air Act.

    by Tim Lydon, Apr 21, 2011

  • Undoing the myth of Western exceptionalism

    California’s decision to tackle global warming is a sign that the West is finally growing up enough to realize that it is not an "exceptional" place, entirely detached from the rest of the modern world.

    by Matt Jenkins, Sep 18, 2006

  • Glaciers offer a glimpse of the distant past

    Like tree rings, ice cores create a record of the climate of the past, and the National Ice Core Laboratory in Denver houses the largest collection of polar ice cores in the world

    by Allen Best, Jan 24, 2005

  • Two weeks in the West

    Western governors go green; King Coal gets hammered; Divine Strake strikes out; Colorado cons on the North Forty; Mother Nature’s bodyguards; Western wagering data; and energy use and Bush approval: a case of eerie symmetry.

    by Jonathan Thompson, Mar 19, 2007

  • The Sunflower State says a historic no to coal

    Allen Best applauds Kansas for denying permits to two proposed coal-fired power plants because of concerns about greenhouse gases.

    by Allen Best, Nov 12, 2007

  • The hidden costs of our coal habit

    In Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future, Jeff Goodell reveals how the sausage is made when it comes to the primary source of America’s electricity.

    by Allen Best, Apr 16, 2007
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