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  • Bear witness to climate change

    Bear witness to climate change

    To imagine what your corner of the West will be like in a warmer climate, consider how different plants and animals are at a lower elevation.

    by Pepper Trail, Feb 03, 2010

  • Climate-change clues — in tropical glaciers

    In Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World’s Highest Mountain Ranges, mountain climber and physicist Mark Bowen follows researchers who are finding clues to climate change in high-altitude tropical glaciers

    by John Krist, Jun 26, 2006

  • Exodus

    The abandonment of the American Southwest by the Anasazi 700 years ago – and the destruction of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina today – show that all civilizations are fragile, complex, and ultimately at the mercy of the climate

    by Greg Hanscom, Oct 03, 2005
  • Fighting the wind on a Montana camping trip

    Fighting the wind on a Montana camping trip

    If you want to be driven crazy by the wind, try canoeing and camping on Montana's Marias River.

    by Jeremy N. Smith, Nov 27, 2011

  • Hot time in the city

    In the dog days of a hot summer, Allen Best wonders if air conditioning is altogether a good thing.

    by Allen Best, Aug 13, 2007

  • Into thin air?

    Global warming spurs calls for new dams in the West – but where will the water come from to fill them?

    by Matt Jenkins, Apr 30, 2007
  • It's a bird, it's a plane, its a contrail

    It's a bird, it's a plane, its a contrail

    A Westerner becomes a reluctant connoisseur of the contrails that streak across the region’s bright blue skies.

    by Charles Kulander, May 26, 2011

  • On the trail of global warming

    This winter’s weird weather has everybody talking, but nobody wants to tackle the big question: Is global warming finally hitting the West?

    by Greg Hanscom, Apr 18, 2005

  • Reawakening our wild humanity

    Human beings can learn a lot from our wild animal cousins, but we need to pay more attention to them — especially to the ones we flatten on the highways

    by Paul Larmer, Feb 07, 2005

  • The best-laid plans

    It’s high time Arizona realized it’s a desert, and has to share the Colorado River with six other dry Western states

    by Greg Hanscom, Mar 21, 2005
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