http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 10. http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.9/coping-with-two-headed-fish-and-other-effects-of-selenium Researchers try to determine if unhealthy amounts of selenium are entering Western soil and water due to energy development. No publisher Danielle Venton Kesterson reservoir oil and gas development irrigation wildlife deformities groundwater pollution riparian soil disturbance fish JoAnn Holloway Selenium J.R. Simplot BLM U.S. Geological Survey water pollution Muddy Creek, Wyoming wildlife birds reptiles 2012-05-30T17:41:17Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.7/what2019s-in-a-name The names on the Western landscape tell a harrowing, fascinating and at times hilarious story. No publisher Sarah Gilman Western history Place names U.S. Geological Survey 2011-04-26T21:13:01Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.12/dust-takes-a-toll The increasing clouds of dust in the West are affecting the region’s health, snow cover, rainfall and even climate. No publisher Melanie Lenart Jayne Belnap Imtiaz Rangwala climate change Jason Neff Margaret Hiza Redsteer U.S. Geological Survey drought climatology dust storms 2012-10-05T20:50:33Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/climate-change-check-the-data-yourself A collaborative online effort allows both skeptics and believers to study and compare the scientific data regarding climate change. No publisher Debra Peters and William deBuys Jayne Belnap Imtiaz Rangwala climate change Hot Times Jason Neff Margaret Hiza Redsteer U.S. Geological Survey drought climatology dust storms 2011-10-10T18:52:05Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.3/the-other-big-one What would happen if a killer storm like the one that walloped the West in 1862 hit California today? No publisher Judith Lewis atmospheric rivers meteorology National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration paleoclimatology U.S. Geological Survey ArkStorm West Coast 1862 storms 2010-02-18T16:35:32Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.20/after-the-floods The Ice Age Floods reshaped the landscape of eastern Washington -- and our knowledge of geology. No publisher Eric Wagner geology Dry Falls Uniformitarianism U.S. Geological Survey Joseph T. Pardee Channeled Scablands Catastrophism J Harlen Bretz Ice Age Floods Gary Kleinknecht 2010-02-05T09:27:16Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/307/15810 U.S. Geological Survey gets Yucca Mountain research funding cut; logging halted on Giant Sequoia National Monument; New Mexican politicians fight proposal to drill in Valle Vidal No publisher Matt Jenkins U.S. Geological Survey Yucca Mountain scientific research budget cuts safety issues Forest Service Department of Energy Giant Sequoia National Monument logging Sequoia National Forest Valle Vidal oil and gas drilling El Paso Corporation Tom U 2010-02-05T09:26:28Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/308/15849 Wildlife biologist Erik Beever says that as the climate warms in the Great Basin, pikas are rapidly disappearing from mountains where they formerly thrived No publisher Michelle Nijhuis animal high-altitude ecology populations Science biologists global warming Eugene Raymond Hall U.S. Geological Survey Joseph Grinnell Rodents Climate Changes climate change Erik Beever Great Basin wildlife pikas 2010-04-21T21:13:27Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/335/16700 Hopi and Navajo tribes settle boundary dispute; oil shale returns to western Colorado; Northern Cheyenne open coal reserves to development; judge upholds critical habitat designation for "vernal pools" in California and Oregon; red tree vole wins protecti No publisher Staff Native Americans oil shale Shell Pat EGL Resources Piceance Basin Navajo Hopi boundary dispute Exxon Indians Navajo relocation Ferrell Hopi Reservation BLM U.S. Geological Survey Navajo Nation energy leases Kenne Energy Policy Act Secakuku 2010-09-09T21:08:54Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/290/15232 Like tree rings, ice cores create a record of the climate of the past, and the National Ice Core Laboratory in Denver houses the largest collection of polar ice cores in the world No publisher Allen Best Greenland David Naftz Science Climate Change Hot Times greenhouse gases Antarctica global warming National Ice Core Laboratory paleoclimatology U.S. Geological Survey Cravens glaciers climate change James White Eric 2010-09-30T15:48:26Z News Article