Climate & Pollution
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Writers on the Range
You can’t stop nature
Pepper Trail warns us that we continue to tinker with nature at our peril.
by Pepper Trail, Dec 10, 2007 -
News
Toxic legacy
Some activists fear that toxic chemicals in a New Mexico landfill, left over from Cold War-era nuclear weapons research, may be creeping toward the Albuquerque Aquifer.
by Stephanie Hiller, Dec 10, 2007 -
News
Coal’s other mess
Even as the air over power plants clears, the coal combustion waste on the ground gets worse – and the EPA seems disinclined to deal with the problem.
by Jonathan Thompson, Nov 26, 2007 -
News
Ashes to houses
One of coal's big messes is transformed into building blocks
by Jonathan Thompson, Nov 20, 2007 -
Writers on the Range
Western water is petering out
Pete Letheby says the West is headed for a hotter and drier future, and this time, as farmer Gerald Spangler warns him, we’re running out of groundwater.
by Pete Letheby, Nov 19, 2007 -
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Smoke alarm
Wildfires across the West release surprising amounts of mercury
by Kat Leitzell, Nov 09, 2007 -
Writers on the Range
When smoke gets in your life
Alan Kesselheim misses the summers of the past, when Western skies were blue and clear and not blurred and choked with smoke and ash.
by Alan Kesselheim, Aug 31, 2007 -
Writers on the Range
The inevitable fires next time
Rocky Barker warns us that the new West is a world of inevitable, long-lasting and increasing forest fires.
by Rocky Barker, Aug 31, 2007 -
Writers on the Range
The caveguy within holds us back
George Sibley believes our Neandertal brains hold us back from accepting the fact that we cause global warming.
by George Sibley, Aug 06, 2007 -
Writers on the Range
A Wyoming forest yearns to burn
Bill Sniffin warns that Wyoming’s Shoshone National Forest is ready to go up in flames.
by Bill Sniffin, Aug 06, 2007 -
Writers on the Range
The challenge of climate-change denial
Skeptics, even irrational ones, probably once had a useful evolutionary role to play in human communities, but in the face of rapid climate change, they are becoming a fatal obstacle
by Auden Schendler, May 14, 2007 -
News
Market cooling
California and the West decide to tackle global warming through the market – by buying and selling carbon
by Oakley Brooks, Apr 30, 2007 -
Two Weeks in the West
Two weeks in the West
Death (and life) in the Sonoran Desert; fire and drought in the Southwest; courts rule against Bush on environmental issues.
by Jonathan Thompson, Apr 16, 2007 -
Editor's Note
Dry to the bone
Despite a relatively snowy winter here in western Colorado, the season itself seems to have shrunk, with spring arriving weeks earlier than it once did in a trend with ominous consequences for the desert Southwest, particularly Phoenix.
by Paul Larmer, Apr 16, 2007 -
Writers on the Range
Why would a federal agency trash its libraries?
The Environmental Protection Agency’s quiet efforts to dismantle its own technical libraries are likely to hamstring scientific research – and freedom of thought – across the nation, Jeff Ruch warns.
by Jeff Ruch, Apr 09, 2007
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