The Golden State's new cap-and-trade program aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions while avoiding the pitfalls of similar attempts.
Items by Brendon Bosworth
Dennis Sizemore, who heads the outdoor education program, discusses its founding and philosophy with HCN.
Scientists find a climatic archive at the bottom of an alpine lake in California's Sierra Nevada.
As fossil fuel emissions lower the ocean’s pH, Pacific Northwest shellfish growers face an uncertain future.
Hunting group has plans for new type of conservation
Opinionated Americans ask to create the 51st state of Jefferson on the West Coast and ride their ATVS where they please, among other things.
Western growth spikes while other states lag
Report shows who feels most pain at the pumps
U.S. and Mexico sign Colorado River deal
Images of frogs deformed by a parasitic flatworm that flourishes in altered environments.
Grand Canyon soon to be in digital format
Skiing company gets clean energy from new coalbed methane power plant
What's next for weed legalization in Washington and Colorado?
Things get weird in politics
Important and intriguing measures on the ballot this year across the West.
Parasite no friend for frogs
California carbon trading program strict on enforcement
Figures get slippery in California's genetic modification labeling ballot measure
Pot legalization on the ballot in three Western states
Researchers convert air quality data into soundscapes
California case highlights illegal market for rhino horn
City versus state in Colorado oil and gas fight
Wave-energy development gains ground in Oregon
Native fish head upstream in wake of dam removal
Opponents rally against effort to mandate labeling of genetically engineered foods in California
A breakdown of what various states spend on bike lanes and public transportation.
Rulings for haze reductions play out differently for two southwest power stations
Feds give go-ahead for controversial groundwater pipeline to feed Las Vegas
HCN's newest interns are Brendon Bosworth and Emily Guerin; farewell to Philip Fradkin; correction.
Scientists ask the public to help track a tiny fly that turns honeybees into zombies
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