http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.6/aspen-colo-environmental-community-split-over-small-hydro Reviving a small hydroelectric plant on Castle Creek was supposed to help the city's utility get closer to providing 100 percent carbon free electricity as part of an effort to fight climate change. Instead, it's kicked up a furor. No publisher Allen Best Aspen American Rivers Climate Change Trout Unlimited Connie Harvey Canary Initiative Small hydro 2013-04-24T15:12:09Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/329/16509 With global warming an increasing threat, some are urging a return to nuclear energy, but the industry’s own checkered past reminds us that a nuclear renaissance will be neither easy nor cheap No publisher Jonathan Thompson coal power radioactive waste Greenpeace Uranium Uravan Three Mile Island fossil fuels Clean and Mining Safe Energy Coalition uranium Nuclear energy Science Chernobyl Ukraine mining Climate Change Patrick Moore greenhouse gases global warming Energy Policy Department of Energy Energy Nuclear Energy George W. Bush 2011-12-09T18:04:52Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/323/16326 In Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, Tom Painter and other scientists study the dust in the snow and ponder its implications for future drought and weather conditions, especially in the era of global warming No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Climate Change Tom Painter scientists climate geographers National Snow and Ice Data Center Boulder Colorado Rocky Mountains Maroon Bells Red Mountain Pass hydrologists snow scientists chemistry skiers University of Colorado Maureen Cassidy Senator Beck Science 2011-12-06T00:00:13Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/327/16453 Climate scientist Anthony Westerling is working to illuminate the connection between rising global temperatures and the increasing ferocity of the West’s forest fires No publisher Matt Jenkins Forests Fire Climate Change Anthony Westerling climate scientists global warming climate change forest fires wildfires Scripps Institution of Oceanography Science Express snowpack Northern Rocky Mountains Northern California Cascade Mountains Sierra Nevada ecological re Science 2011-11-21T23:29:21Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/325/16391 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 No publisher John Krist Climate Change Mark Bowen Thin Ice climate change global warming science glaciers ice cores Kilimanjaro Himalayas Andes melt rate snowpack weather Goddard Institute for Space Studies climatologists scientific research mountain climbers equator Arctic s Science 2011-11-12T23:40:27Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/325/16388 Whatever the cause, the weather in the West this last year has been wild and wacky No publisher Stephanie Paige Ogburn Weather Climate Change Western states climate change floods drought global warming NOAA precipitation dust storms haboob Phoenix Arizona Washington mudslides Oregon windstorms California moisture Nevada dryness Colorado snowpack ski resorts Montan Science 2011-11-12T23:32:19Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/325/16379 In a special summer reading issue, HCN dishes up a science fiction story that imagines life in the Southwest in 2030 or so, when "Big Daddy Drought" is in full stride, and California claims all water No publisher Greg Hanscom Science Climate Change Dams and Water Supply Projects Paolo Bacigalupi The Tamarisk Hunter science fiction sci-fi short stories summer reading drought climate change global warming future scenarios water rights 1922 Colorado River Compact Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change dystopias utop 2011-11-12T22:40:54Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/325/16378 In the desert Southwest of 2030 Big Daddy Drought runs the show, California claims all the water, and a water tick named Lolo ekes out a rugged living removing tamarisk. No publisher Paolo Bacigalupi The 1922 Colorado River Compact irrigation sci-fi rights imagined futures Science Tamarisk Hunter tamarisk California water law water Science fiction Paolo Bacigalupi Weather future scenarios Climate Change Dams and Water Supply Projects drought fiction short stories SF 2011-11-12T21:30:05Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/324/16356 The Nez Perce Tribe is trying to combat global warming – and make a few bucks – by planting trees for carbon dioxide sequestration No publisher Joshua Zaffos Development reservation economics climate forestry Energy Kyoto Protocol Science Climate Change tree planting Reservations and Economic Forests global warming Native Americans Nez Perce Indians carbon sequestration National Carbon Offset Coalition Ted Dodge carbon banking California cap and trade systems change 2011-11-12T02:56:09Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/321/16285 In Chasing Spring: An American Journey Through a Changing Season, nature writer Bruce Stutz follows spring from New York to Alaska, examining the surprising changes that global warming is bringing No publisher Ewen Callaway Climate Change Bruce Stutz Chasing Spring seasons nature writing heart surgery travel road trips science global warming springtime hummingbirds climate change temperature The Weather Makers Tim Flannery memoirs autobiography scientists cacti Science 2011-11-12T01:00:18Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/321/16271 Executives from six of the nation’s largest energy companies have asked federal lawmakers to set mandatory caps on greenhouse gas emissions No publisher Brett Wilkison Science Climate Change Energy Policy Energy companies global warming greenhouse gas emissions climate change energy policy Congress Pete Domenici Jeff Bingaman Shell General Electric David Doniger Natural Resources Defense Council Marnie Funk Republicans Democrats Senate Energ 2011-11-11T18:57:01Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/278/14853 Mountain pine beetles are attacking more forests and more varieties of trees — and thriving at higher elevations than ever before — and some scientists believe global climate change is at the root of the problem No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Dendroctonus Wildlife Climate Change Barbara Bentz Insects lodgepole pine Hot Times whitebark pine beetle Forests Global warming forests pinon pines ponderosa pines jack pines Jesse Logan Science mountain pine climate change 2011-11-11T16:56:12Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/301/15620 Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels is striving to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make his city environmentally sustainable No publisher J.M. McCord Science Climate Change Communities In Transition Seattle Washington Greg Nickels mayors Kyoto Protocol global warming climate change greenhouse gases sustainability energy pollution Denis Hayes Orin Smith Seattle City Light hydropower wind power 2005 City Livability Award environmentali 2011-05-16T22:59:56Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/373/17770 On the drought-stricken Navajo Nation, scientist Margaret Hiza Redsteer studies the movement of sand dunes. No publisher Michelle Nijhuis climate change Hot Times scientists Margaret Hiza Redsteer Navajo Nation Climate Change sand dunes drought women 2010-09-30T15:58:00Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/317/16150 Sprinkled throughout the lead story are "fun facts" about what causes greenhouse gas emissions and what people can do to reduce them No publisher Michelle Nijhuis car travel Environment Climate Change recycling Greenhouse gas emissions carbon dioxide Bonneville Environmental Foundation hybrid gasoline LED traffic signals landfills Global Environment Energy Efficiency Science forest conservation air travel methane solid waste cars Hot Times power plants 2010-09-30T15:52:43Z News Article