Results for keyword: climate change
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Audio: High Country Views, episode 4
Judith Lewis, Jonathan Thompson and Cally Carswell talk mining politics. Plus, an audio postcard from a California ghost town inhabited by pikas.
by Cally Carswell, Apr 22, 2010 -
Warning: Water policy faces an age of limits
New water projects and giant pipelines will do nothing to solve the West's drought and its increasing water shortage.
by Dan McCool, Apr 22, 2010 -
Between the grims and the grins
We will need humility as well as technology to triumph over climate change.
by Allen Best, Mar 30, 2010 -
When a scientist becomes an activist
In his first book, Storms of My Grandchildren, NASA climate scientist James Hansen explains the truth of climate change and reveals why he has risked his career to bring the issue to light.
by Auden Schendler , Mar 11, 2010 -
Good night, sweet trees
A scientist sees a Shakespearean tragedy unfold in the West’s dying aspen forests, victims of climate change.
by William R.L. Anderegg, Feb 26, 2010 -
A nature lover's bucket list
Time is running out to see the natural wonders that are endangered by rampant global warming.
by Tim Lydon, Feb 15, 2010 -
Breakdown
California's Westlands irrigation district wants to blame the tiny and endangered Delta smelt for its water troubles, but the real culprit is simply long-term drought.
by Matt Jenkins, Jan 11, 2010 -
A federal agency tries to hold on to what it's built
As climate change and water shortages bring an end to the era of dams, the federal Bureau of Reclamation seeks to reinvent itself.
by Allen Best , Dec 01, 2009 -
Living on Glacial Time
Climate change is altering the lands we call home in ways we'd never imagined.
by Ana Maria Spagna, Sep 13, 2009 -
"To feel at home, stay at home."
This essays and book reviews in this special issue of High Country News revolve around the question: What does it mean to be at home in the West?
by Jodi Peterson, Sep 13, 2009






