http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/298/15519 If the United States doesn’t come up with an intelligent energy strategy, global warming could spell the end of the ski industry No publisher Pat O'Donnell Recreation Ski Industry Oil and Gas Ski industry Arctic National Wildlife Refuge global warming climate change fossil fuels energy policy oil and gas drilling drought climatologists weather Bill McKibben Amory Lovins Aspen Skiing Company 2012-03-30T22:14:43Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/290/15220 January may have brought rain and snow to parts of the West, but the study of past climates warns us that we still have to learn to live with drought No publisher Paul Larmer Science Climate Change Weather Tom Pagano drought precipitation snowpack John Wesley Powell The Arid Lands Wallace Stegner dendrochronology tree rings paleoclimate climate change global warming 2010-02-05T09:22:48Z 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/wotr/17246 Alan Kesselheim misses the summers of the past, when Western skies were blue and clear and not blurred and choked with smoke and ash. No publisher Alan Kesselheim Alan Kesselheim forest fires wildfires drought climate change smoke 2010-02-05T09:44:26Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17272 Russ Doty compares the government subsidies given to wind power with those given to coal, and finds that coal is the true welfare king. No publisher Russ Doty Russ Doty coal-fired power plants wind power energy subsidies greenhouse gases climate change 2010-02-05T09:44:39Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/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. No publisher Auden Schendler autobiography Storms of My Grandchildren climate change NASA scientists James Hansen climate scientists 2010-03-09T17:44:04Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/294/15374 Ten years ago, Ben Harding created a worst-case drought scenario for a U.S. Geological Survey study, but the current drought on the Colorado River may be even worse than he imagined No publisher Matt Jenkins Weather Dams And Water Supply Projects Colorado River drought Ben Harding U.S. Geological Survey Glen Canyon Dam Lees Ferry Lake Powell water shortages climate change global warming Bureau of Reclamation 2010-02-05T09:24:01Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.9/whats-the-best-place-for-big-solar Environmentalists have been too busy squabbling over proposed solar plants to pay much attention to one of the most promising sites: Gila Bend, Ariz. No publisher Sarah Gilman energy transmission lines Solar energy geothermal power Ivanpah Solar renewable energy Big Solar climate change Arizona desert tortoises endangered desert plants industrial solar Judith Lewis Mernit Mojave Desert Gila Bend utility-scale solar projects global warming endangered species coal power Green Path North environmental movement 2012-05-25T01:39:48Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/what-should-we-do-with-our-blink-of-time Natural history teaches us how rapidly and irrevocably the world can change -- a fact we should bear in mind as we enter the new, human-dominated era some scientists call the Anthropocene. No publisher Stephen Trimble mass extinctions evolution death Anthropocene Mesozoic climate change Pleistocene industrial revolution global warming species extinction pollution geology, paleontology, biodiversity loss, drought, natural resources scientists Natural history Natural History Museum of Utah tectonic cycles Eocene Holocene 2012-05-31T15:19:09Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/296/15431 An unusual winter sends ripples through the West's water and wildlife systems, and leaves scientists wondering whether global warming is the cause. No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Science Climate Change Winter global warming climate change rainfall snowpack wolves Yellowstone National Park water supply weather seasons climate variation ski industry Death Valley Kelly Redmond Western Regional Climate Center ski resorts Cascade Mountains R 2010-02-05T09:24:18Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17390 Pete Letheby says the West is headed for a hotter and drier future, and this time, as farmer Gerald Spangler warns him, we’re running out of groundwater. No publisher Pete Letheby Pete Letheby Gerald Spangler global warming drought groundwater climate change Dust Bowl Ogallala aquifer 2010-02-05T09:45:16Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.9/western-water-in-the-age-of-climate-change In Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West, James Lawrence Powell examines the impact of climate change on the West’s future. No publisher Kyle Boelte John Wesley Powell climate change James Lawrence Powell Dead Pool Colorado River drought Lake Powell 2010-02-05T09:36:20Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/articles/west-of-100-droughts-past-present-and-future An oral history of the 1950s drought in West Texas, and a look at what the 2000 to 2004 drought could portend for the future. No publisher Cally Carswell 1950s drought climate change drought west of 100 podcast 2012-08-28T16:48:21Z Audio http://www.hcn.org/wotr/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. No publisher Dan McCool Colorado River Compact climate change water conservation water projects irrigation Western water rights drought 2010-04-20T20:55:55Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/316/16131 The hurricanes in the Gulf and New Mexico’s endless drought lead the author to wonder why it is human beings refuse to take nature seriously No publisher Laura Paskus Albuquerque New Mexico drought climate change global warming water shortages Drought Summit Dave Gutzler meteorology climatology Kathy Jacobs Gregg Garfin scientists nature arid climates hurricanes Hurricane Wilma Hurricane Katrina 2010-02-05T08:57:04Z News Article