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  • 'Sound science' in doubt at Yucca Mountain

    Recently released e-mails show that federal employees falsified information about the safety of the proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev.

    by J.M. McCord, Apr 18, 2005

  • A chemical cocktail pollutes Western water

    A recent study from the U.S. Geological Survey finds traces of pharmaceuticals, pesticides and personal care products in Colorado’s streams and groundwater

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Apr 18, 2005

  • A geography of the imagination

    In Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, edited by Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney, 45 diverse writers define unusual geographical terms used across the country.

    by Eliza Murphy, Mar 05, 2007
  • A scientist's view of change

    A scientist's view of change

    In Of Rock and Rivers, Ellen Wohl, a geomorphologist, reads the story behind the Western landscape.

    by Valerie Rapp, Nov 22, 2009

  • A season of change

    In Chasing Spring: An American Journey Through a Changing Season, nature writer Bruce Stutz follows spring from New York to Alaska, examining the surprising changes that global warming is bringing

    by Ewen Callaway, May 01, 2006
  • Between the grims and the grins

    Between the grims and the grins

    We will need humility as well as technology to triumph over climate change.

    by Allen Best, Mar 30, 2010
  • Bridging American Indian students' scientific achievement gap

    Bridging American Indian students' scientific achievement gap

    Educator Michael Ceballos breaks down the barriers keeping young Native Americans from careers in science.

    by Erica Gies, May 11, 2011

  • Can't we all just get along

    A new report, Making the Most of Science in the American West: An Experiment, aims at teaching Westerners to work with scientists to avoid environmental conflicts, according to co-author Patricia Nelson Limerick

    by Jodi Peterson, Mar 15, 2004

  • Climate model may help farmers know what to grow

    A high-tech climate model will give farmers in Washington’s Yakima Valley a kind of crystal ball for predicting weather, choosing which crops to plant, and dealing with drought and global warming

    by Hilary Watts, Apr 18, 2005

  • Conscientious Objectors

    Under increasing political pressure from the Bush administration and its appointees, agency scientists find it difficult to keep both their jobs and their integrity

    by Laura Paskus, Dec 20, 2004
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