Personal tools
You are here: home
Log in


Forgot your password?
New user?
 

Results for keyword: U.S. Geological Survey

  • What’s in a name?

    What’s in a name?

    The names on the Western landscape tell a harrowing, fascinating and at times hilarious story.

    by Sarah Gilman, May 02, 2011
  • Dust takes a toll

    Dust takes a toll

    The increasing clouds of dust in the West are affecting the region’s health, snow cover, rainfall and even climate.

    by Melanie Lenart, Jul 19, 2010
  • Climate change: Check the data yourself

    Climate change: Check the data yourself

    A collaborative online effort allows both skeptics and believers to study and compare the scientific data regarding climate change.

    by Debra Peters and William deBuys, Jul 13, 2010
  • The other Big One

    The other Big One

    What would happen if a killer storm like the one that walloped the West in 1862 hit California today?

    by Judith Lewis, Feb 17, 2010
  • After the Floods

    After the Floods

    The Ice Age Floods reshaped the landscape of eastern Washington -- and our knowledge of geology.

    by Eric Wagner, Nov 23, 2009

  • Two weeks in the West

    Hopi and Navajo tribes settle boundary dispute; oil shale returns to western Colorado; Northern Cheyenne open coal reserves to development; judge upholds critical habitat designation for "vernal pools" in California and Oregon; red tree vole wins protecti

    by Staff, Nov 27, 2006

  • 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 Latest Bounce

    U.S. Geological Survey gets Yucca Mountain research funding cut; logging halted on Giant Sequoia National Monument; New Mexican politicians fight proposal to drill in Valle Vidal

    by Matt Jenkins, Oct 03, 2005

  • Glaciers offer a glimpse of the distant past

    Like tree rings, ice cores create a record of the climate of the past, and the National Ice Core Laboratory in Denver houses the largest collection of polar ice cores in the world

    by Allen Best, Jan 24, 2005
 

Email Newsletter

The West in your Inbox

Follow Us

Follow us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Follow our RSS feeds!
Comments Most Commented Most Emailed
  1. L.A. activists try to stop woodlands from becoming sediment dumps | When Camron Stone realized that an oak forest was ...
  2. From gust to gale | So-called "grass-roots" opposition to wind may be ...
  3. Frack fricasee | Election-year politics (partially) hijack Interior...
  4. A Mexican rancher struggles to shift from cattle to conservation | In Northwest Mexico, rancher Carlos Robles Elías ...
  5. Make anglers allies for endangered species | The Endangered Species Act is more flexible than i...
  1. Micah True, born to run | Remembering Micah True – known as “Caballo Bla...
  2. Balancing fish and farms on a Washington estuary | A restoration effort at Fisher Slough in Washingto...
  3. Retirees join environmentalists in fighting Arizona copper mine | The conservative, golf-playing retirees of Queen V...
  4. Bark beetle kill leads to more severe fires, right? Well, maybe | The connection between bark beetle outbreaks and W...
  5. A Mexican rancher struggles to shift from cattle to conservation | In Northwest Mexico, rancher Carlos Robles Elías ...
Special coverage
HCN Classifieds
 
© 2012 High Country News, all rights reserved. | privacy policy | terms of use | powered by Plone | site by Groundwire | design by Ryan Foster

HCN Logo High Country News in your inbox!


Sign up now to receive our weekly email newsletter!

- The best weekly collection of Western environmental news

- An at-a-glance look at our latest news and analysis