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Washington's Hanford Reservation and nuclear plant may lie on faults

Brian Sherrod, a government paleoseismologist, believes cities and infrastructure in eastern Washington may be far more earthquake-prone than previously realized.

by Bill Lascher, Oct 26, 2011
Bridging American Indian students' scientific achievement gap

Educator Michael Ceballos breaks down the barriers keeping young Native Americans from careers in science.

by Erica Gies, May 10, 2011
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
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 scientist's view of change

In Of Rock and Rivers, Ellen Wohl, a geomorphologist, reads the story behind the Western landscape.

by Valerie Rapp, Nov 23, 2009
Renewables: The Final Frontier

Vaclav Smil is a historian who exemplifies Vulcan-style logic and skepticism when it comes to easy solutions to energy problems.

by Randy Udall, Jun 26, 2009
Science under glass

Researchers are using Arizona’s Biosphere 2 to study how plant communities affect the movement of water.

by Tim Hull, May 22, 2009
The collected Sierra Nevada

Meteorologist Hal Klieforth has collected a lifetime of knowledge – and a museum’s worth of artifacts – from years spent exploring the Sierra Nevada.

by Terray Sylvester , Apr 28, 2009
INNOVATE, Part I

Westerners have a knack for new and innovative thinking, as this special issue of HCN shows.

by Ray Ring, Tom Beal, Emily Underwood, Terray Sylvester, Sarah Gilman, Mar 09, 2009
Shifting sands in Navajoland

On the drought-stricken Navajo Nation, scientist Margaret Hiza Redsteer studies the movement of sand dunes.

by Michelle Nijhuis, Jun 23, 2008