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Despite the growing threat of Western wildfire, most of us are still pretending it will go away if we just ignore it.
by Jonathan Thompson ,
Sep 02, 2008
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The West’s weather is full of surprises this spring,
with snowstorms, windstorms, rain and wildfires all happening at
the same time.
by Jonathan Thompson,
May 12, 2008
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Ernest Atencio ponders an exceptionally muddy Mud Season
in New Mexico, and notes how readily most Westerners forget that we
live in an arid landscape.
by Ernest Atencio,
May 12, 2008
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Environmental pioneer Stewart Udall and his wife, Lee, ask
their grandchildren to be “steadfast enemies of
waste.”
by Stewart and Lee Udall,
Mar 31, 2008
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Rhonda Claridge describes a hard winter in the high
mountains, and points out that one seldom-acknowledged effect of
climate change could be harder winters in some parts of the
world.
by Rhonda Claridge,
Mar 31, 2008
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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
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California and the West decide to tackle global warming
through the market – by buying and selling carbon
by Oakley Brooks,
Jul 16, 2008
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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
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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
by Michelle Nijhuis,
Jun 21, 2004
