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  • Writers on the Range

    Spring

    The writer welcomes the end of a claustrophobic winter outside of Boise, Idaho

  • Writers on the Range

    The secret of Wyoming winters is the snow-eating chinook

    The writer explains what makes Wyoming winters different

  • Writers on the Range

    Where did the Northwest’s moisture go?

    The writer is used to anything but an unseasonably dry Northwest

  • News

    California's farmers ditch dirty diesel pumps

    California’s two largest utility companies are encouraging farmers to switch from polluting diesel irrigation pumps to electric ones

  • Writers on the Range

    Global warming brings a clash of civilizations

    The writers call global warming the one issue we can’t afford to duck

  • Editor's Note

    Who'll stop the rain?

    January may have brought rain and snow to parts of the West, but the study of past climates warns us that we still have to learn to live with drought

  • Book Reviews

    State loopholes upset Clean Air Act

    The Environmental Integrity Project has issued a new report on power plant emissions called Gaming the System: How the Off-the-Books Industrial Upset Emissions Cheat the Public Out of Clean Air

  • News

    Citizens wary of their nuclear neighbor

    Sandia National Laboratories wants to monitor the nuclear waste in a Cold War-era landfill just outside Albuquerque, rather than excavate it or try to move it elsewhere

  • Essays

    When yesterday’s garbage becomes today’s collectible

    A visit to Glass Beach in California leads to dumpster-diving on a grand scale, and offers a preview of future geologic strata

  • Writers on the Range

    When yesterday’s garbage becomes today’s collectibles

    Alan Kesselheim visits Glass Beach in California, where garbage is being transmuted into collectibles.

  • News

    Of global warming and White House elephants

    The Bush administration needs to start dealing with global climate change, and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger may help to point the way

  • News

    Mowing down pollution

    California tackles air pollution caused by gas-guzzling power lawn mowers

  • News

    Wanted: Leak-proof dumps

    Because arid Wyoming built landfills without liners, at least 21 of the state’s dumps are now leaking dangerous chemicals into groundwater

  • Book Reviews

    Perspectives on change — climate change

    Charles Wohlforth looks at climate change in Alaska from two cultures’ viewpoints, when he talks to scientists and to the Inupiaq people in The Whale and the Supercomputer: On The Northern Front of Climate Change

  • News

    A near-miss for California’s clean-air rules

    California’s newest clean-air law, designed to deal with pollution from small engines, narrowly survives an attempt to shoot it down in the U.S. Congress

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