Climate & Pollution
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Writers on the Range
What should we do with our blink of time?
Natural history teaches us how rapidly and irrevocably the world can change -- a fact we should bear in mind as we enter the new, human-dominated era some scientists call the Anthropocene.
by Stephen Trimble, May 31, 2012 -
Current
Coping with two-headed fish and other effects of selenium
Researchers try to determine if unhealthy amounts of selenium are entering Western soil and water due to energy development.
by Danielle Venton, May 29, 2012 -
Letters
Something in the desert water?
by Bill Gore, May 27, 2012 -
Sidebar
Selenium concentrations
Muddy Creek selenium levels
by U.S. Geological Survey, May 27, 2012 -
Writers on the Range
Rachel Carson's redwood dreams, and 50 years of "Silent Spring"
Scientist and writer Rachel Carson's intelligence, courage and love for life are remembered on the 50th anniversary of her groundbreaking book "Silent Spring."
by Carol Carson, May 16, 2012 -
Current
Low snowpack means a dry summer for the West
A map shows Western snowpacks as of April 1, 2012, and notes record-breaking heat and dry weather in the Southwest.
by Neil LaRubbio, Apr 29, 2012 -
Current
When Peter Gleick fell, California's water world lost big
After he impersonated a Heartland Institute board member, gadfly scientist and Pacific Institute head Peter Gleick has been persona non grata. But California water bosses may miss his fierce intellect.
by Matt Jenkins, Apr 24, 2012 -
Writers on the Range
A future of big fires and tiny bugs
A second-generation forest ranger considers how fire prevention and climate change are affecting the forests he once roamed with his father.
by Frank Carroll, Apr 17, 2012 -
News
Margaret Hiza Redsteer uses Navajo memories to track climate change
A scientist taps the recollections of tribal elders as part of her work to piece together the story of landscape change on the Navajo Nation.
by Danielle Venton, Apr 03, 2012 -
Book Reviews
Two degrees warmer and rising: A review of A Great Aridness
Books about climate change tend to be grim reading, but William deBuys' love for the American Southwest makes his new nonfiction book A Great Aridness beautiful as well as disturbing.
by Laura Paskus, Mar 04, 2012 -
Writers on the Range
Your trash is my treasure
If you want to find an inexpensive, entertaining way to furnish your house, try raiding the garbage in a resort town like Crested Butte, Colo.
by Dawne Belloise, Feb 02, 2012 -
Writers on the Range
Beauty and the Beast
Photographers and artists -- and scientists, too -- discover that a terrible beauty can be found in ravaged industrial regions.
by Sarah Gilman, Jan 22, 2012 -
Current
The year 2011, in apocalyptic weather events
Fire and flood, snowstorms and droughts, downburst winds and desert haboobs -- 2011 brought incredibly wacky weather to the West.
by Jonathan Thompson, Dec 25, 2011 -
Letters
Polluted air, coming soon to Glacier National Park
by Lowell Chandler, Dec 11, 2011 -
Writers on the Range
Breathing clean air comes in second in Congress
House bills to delay air pollution standards move on to the Senate.
by Nathan Rice, Nov 17, 2011






