Results for keyword: climate change
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Arctic ship logs help scientists reconstruct climatic history
Sailors' journals detailing the weather of voyages past could improve the accuracy of climate models' projections of the future.
by Eric Wagner, Jun 14, 2013 -
Bigger fires and evolving threats force changes in the Northwest Forest Plan
Dynamic forests require flexible management
by Nathan Rice, Apr 29, 2013 -
On losing nothing
Climate change will transform both the Arctic and the Mojave Desert, but for different reasons
by Sarah Gilman, Apr 15, 2013 -
Global warming's reluctant poster child
The ski industry, for whom bad press means all the difference between a banner year and a bust, tries to manage public perception of climate change's impact on snowfall and resort conditions.
by Greg Hanscom, Mar 04, 2013 -
Ski industry supports cloud seeding but downplays climate change
Getting skiers on the slopes is less about actual snow and more about getting skiers to believe there is snow.
by Jonathan Thompson, Mar 04, 2013 -
Climate change turns an already troubled ski industry on its head
California's Mammoth Mountain provides a case study on the uncertainty of the ski business, and how global warming threatens to make it even more unpredictable.
by Greg Hanscom, Mar 03, 2013 -
Farmers agree to tax those who deplete groundwater
Amid drought and climate change in Colorado’s San Luis Valley, farmers vote for a new approach to rein in their overpumping of groundwater.
by Cally Carswell, Feb 25, 2013 -
Sierra Club fights Keystone XL with civil disobedience
The act will be the first of its kind sanctioned by the group’s board of directors in its 120 year history, and may push the conversation over the controversial tar-sands oil pipeline to a new level.
by Judith Lewis Mernit, Feb 18, 2013 -
A new normal for snow
The dry 2000s means snow trackers have to adjust "normal" downward.
by Sarah Jane Keller, Feb 04, 2013 -
Here come the Super Storms
A storm on the Alaskan coast last year eerily resembled the recent and devastating Sandy.
by Tim Lydon, Dec 07, 2012






