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Fighting the wind on a Montana camping trip

If you want to be driven crazy by the wind, try canoeing and camping on Montana's Marias River.

by Jeremy N. Smith, Nov 28, 2011
Utah's ancient Lake Bonneville holds clues to the West's changing climate

In Utah, scientists are exploring the site of a long-vanished inland sea called Lake Bonneville to understand the West's past - and future - climate.

by Douglas Fox, Nov 07, 2011
Western scientists study the past to predict the future

Scientists are digging into the past of the West to try to understand what the future may bring.

by Michelle Nijhuis, Oct 31, 2011
It's a bird, it's a plane, its a contrail

A Westerner becomes a reluctant connoisseur of the contrails that streak across the region’s bright blue skies.

by Charles Kulander, May 26, 2011
The year in water

A La Niña year brings a good snowpack to some Western states and little or nothing to others.

by Cally Carswell, May 16, 2011
Bear witness to climate change

To imagine what your corner of the West will be like in a warmer climate, consider how different plants and animals are at a lower elevation.

by Pepper Trail, Feb 04, 2010
Hot time in the city

In the dog days of a hot summer, Allen Best wonders if air conditioning is altogether a good thing.

by Allen Best, Aug 13, 2007
Into thin air?

Global warming spurs calls for new dams in the West – but where will the water come from to fill them?

by Matt Jenkins, Apr 30, 2007
Wolves have a reputation that’s larger than life

Some hunters are blaming the Big Bad Wolf for a decline in the northern Yellowstone elk herd, but Dan Whipple points out that recent weather – and Montana hunting policy – are more likely to be responsible.

by Dan Whipple, Mar 26, 2007
Climate-change clues — in tropical glaciers

In Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World’s Highest Mountain Ranges, mountain climber and physicist Mark Bowen follows researchers who are finding clues to climate change in high-altitude tropical glaciers

by John Krist, Jun 26, 2006