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  • States tighten rules, challenge feds to follow

    The state of California pioneered pollution-control efforts decades ago in response to L.A. smog, and today, the Western states are hoping to set the course for national action on climate change

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Mar 06, 2006

  • Hot times — hot damn

    Michelle Nijhuis has just won the 2006 Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism for her series on global warming in the West, which concludes with this issue’s feature story

    by Greg Hanscom, Mar 06, 2006

  • We all lose when scientists sell their credibility

    The writer says Michael Crichton does not deserve a journalism award from scientists for his book, State of Fear, about global warming

    by Ben Long, Feb 27, 2006

  • Under Ground: How Creatures of Mud and Dirt Shape Our World

    Science writer Yvonne Baskin’s new book, Under Ground, takes an intriguing look at the planet’s soils and sediments and their strange inhabitants

    by Staff, Feb 20, 2006

  • The Colorado Plateau II: Biophysical, Socioeconomic, and Cultural Research

    The Colorado Plateau II is a kaleidoscopic anthology of scientists’ thoughts on the history, biology and geology of the vast Colorado Plateau

    by Staff, Feb 06, 2006

  • Climate change is pulling the trigger

    The writer tells of new research linking the extinction of frogs to global warming

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Jan 23, 2006

  • Toothy nuisance moves north

    Nutria, destructive beaver-like mammals from South America, are moving into the Skagit River Valley of northwestern Washington, and some believe a warming climate is to blame

    by Emma Brown, Oct 31, 2005

  • States lead charge against global warming

    With the federal government dragging its feet, Western states are beginning to take action to deal with greenhouse gas emissions and global warming

    by April Reese, Oct 17, 2005

  • In the Great Basin, scientists track global warming

    Wildlife biologist Erik Beever says that as the climate warms in the Great Basin, pikas are rapidly disappearing from mountains where they formerly thrived

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Oct 17, 2005

  • The Ghosts of Yosemite

    Modern-day scientists, retracing the path of Joseph Grinnell in Yosemite National Park, document conspicuous changes in the natural world and find a culprit unimagined by biologists 100 years ago: global warming

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Oct 17, 2005
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