http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16936 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. No publisher Dan Whipple Hunting Threatened and endangered Wolves predators hunters northern Yellowstone elk herd animal populations wildlife climate weather Montana hunting policy Ed Bangs biologists drought Northern Yellowstone Cooperative Wildlife Working Group Oikos Michigan Tech University Joh 2010-02-05T09:43:00Z News Article 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/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/issues/43.18/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. No publisher Michelle Nijhuis George Savile tree-ring science Lake Bonneville climate science greenhouse gases Methuselah Grove climate predictions Douglas Fox global warming paleogeology weather geologists bristlecone pines Western weather climate historians 2011-10-26T22:06:11Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.18/utahs-ancient-lake-bonneville-holds-clues-to-the-wests-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. No publisher Douglas Fox Great Salt Lake climate science Hot Times geologists Donner Party weather Jack Oviatt Heinrich Events tufa ice age Western weather Lake Bonneville climate predictions greenhouse gases Great Basin mineral bathtub rings Cathedral Cave Hadley cell global warming David McGee Jay Quade Guleed Ali Silver Island Range paleogeology climate historians 2011-11-07T15:28:17Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.8/the-year-in-water A La Niña year brings a good snowpack to some Western states and little or nothing to others. No publisher Cally Carswell Western water supply La Niña streamflow Western snowpack irrigation weather precipitation 2011-05-13T16:46:40Z Infographic http://www.hcn.org/issues/294/15362 It’s high time Arizona realized it’s a desert, and has to share the Colorado River with six other dry Western states No publisher Greg Hanscom Dams And Water Supply Projects Central Arizona Project Phoenix Tucson water supply projects Matt Jenkins High Country News Arizona Republic reporters Morris Udall Bruce Babbitt weather canals groundwater irrigation Colorado River Compact dams drought Colorado River Bas 2010-02-05T09:23:56Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/291/15256 Human beings can learn a lot from our wild animal cousins, but we need to pay more attention to them — especially to the ones we flatten on the highways No publisher Paul Larmer Communities Human Beings And Nature Roadkill Tsunami California mudslides animal intelligence sixth sense weather earthquakes wildlife elephants Ajoy Bagchi Ken Grant Humane Society 2010-02-05T09:23:05Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/296/15432 This winter’s weird weather has everybody talking, but nobody wants to tackle the big question: Is global warming finally hitting the West? No publisher Greg Hanscom Science Climate Change Global warming climate change science media weather climate variability meteorology ski industry snow drought mudslides jet stream Rush Limbaugh Fox News Wasatch Mountains Cascade Mountains Bush administration Bush environmental policy U 2010-02-05T09:24:18Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-a-contrail A Westerner becomes a reluctant connoisseur of the contrails that streak across the region’s bright blue skies. No publisher Charles Kulander Contrails clouds airplanes chemtrails weather skies 2011-05-25T15:11:25Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/345/16971 Global warming spurs calls for new dams in the West – but where will the water come from to fill them? No publisher Matt Jenkins Sierra Nevada rapid melting Hot Times water supply weather reservoirs Schwarzenegger dams shorter Colorado River rainfall San Joaquin Valley Arnold Western drought global warming winters change climate Dave Cogdill aridity Dams And Water Supply Projects Temperan snowmelt runoff 2010-09-30T16:00:00Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17186 In the dog days of a hot summer, Allen Best wonders if air conditioning is altogether a good thing. No publisher Allen Best Allen Best summer global warming air conditioning weather energy 2010-02-05T09:44:16Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.20/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. No publisher Jeremy N. Smith Montana history canoeing Marias River weather camping trips Crissie and Jeremy N. Smith wind Western pioneers 2011-11-29T21:16:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/307/15807 The abandonment of the American Southwest by the Anasazi 700 years ago – and the destruction of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina today – show that all civilizations are fragile, complex, and ultimately at the mercy of the climate No publisher Greg Hanscom Archaeology Ruins Communities in Transition Hurricane Katrina New Orleans Louisiana Anasazi Ancestral Puebloans civilization weather drought archaeology history Craig Childs environmental catastrophe human nature 2010-02-05T09:26:26Z 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