Results for keyword: climate change
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A tree-climber's tale of harvesting cones to save whitebark pines
As whitebark pines in the Northern Rockies succumb to pine beetles and blister rust, hardworking climbers defy gravity to collect pine cones from canopies to supply efforts to breed more resilient and resistant trees.
by Hal Herring, Dec 18, 2011 -
Greens need to occupy the Occupy movement
Today's activists need to get more involved in protesting the environmental profiteering that is destroying our planet.
by Tim Lydon, Dec 15, 2011 -
Tips for a bright - and efficient - Christmas
LED light bulbs will light up your life -- and reduce the need for new, polluting coal power plants.
by Russ Doty and Holly Wilde, Dec 14, 2011 -
Environmentalists may have to take what they can get
Obama isn't the fierce environmental leader many hoped for, but some good things are happening despite right-wing opposition and the ongoing recession.
by Paul Larmer, Dec 11, 2011 -
The end is near -- the end of 2011
People should be less worried about the allegedly dire predictions of the Mayan Calendar, and concentrate on making the next year better, since we’re all on earth for a limited time anyway.
by Alan Kesselheim, Dec 01, 2011 -
A ski town contributes mightily to paleontology
The fossils found near Colorado's Snowmass Village have a lot to teach us: not just about mastodons and mammoths, but also about the climate and ecosystem that existed tens of thousands of years ago.
by Allen Best, Nov 30, 2011 -
A fall crop of visitors
High Country News gets lots of visitors; Paolo Bacigalupi's HCN sci-fi story "The Tamarisk Hunter" is in a new anthology; Utne Reader honors visionaries, including some of HCN's friends.
by Jodi Peterson, Nov 10, 2011 -
The foul air outside my window
A small -- and impoverished -- tribe in Nevada suffers from the health impacts of a nearby pollution-spewing coal-fired power plant.
by William Anderson , Oct 19, 2011 -
Management by mega-fire
It’s a basic fact of Western life that fire rarely behaves the way we want it to.
by Paul Larmer, Oct 16, 2011 -
Good policy and good intentions won't stop big wildfires
Federal agencies have made strides in reducing fire danger in the West's forests, but many factors hinder their efforts
by Jodi Peterson, Oct 16, 2011
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