What you can’t see can hurt.
Items by Jonathan Thompson
Utility equipment sparks blazes, but climate change stokes them.
Increase park funding instead.
Climate change and rising demand are sucking the life out of the Southwest’s water supply.
The ghosts of the uranium boom continue to haunt the land, water and people.
Heat and drought combined are especially harmful to the power system.
Land managers and gateway communities struggle to keep up.
The benefits of a national monument in San Juan County outweigh the costs.
The burgeoning marijuana industry gobbles up electricity.
We need to care for the priced-out average worker or something is bound to break.
Gun-related violence soars along with sales.
The bloodthirsty legacies of settler-colonialism and Western expansion endure today.
Trump’s promised inexpensive, impregnable wall was anything but.
Low snowfall has led to catastrophic conditions around the West.
There’s economic development in reclaiming coal mines and plugging idled wells.
A half-century ago, the ‘Big Buildup’ transformed the West; now, it’s all coming to an end.
Remote workers are flocking to Western towns.
From Alaska to Wyoming, evidence shows the climate is off-kilter in the West.
The president-elect has an opportunity to rebuild better than before.
Census method of counting prisoners distorts demographics.
While the region continues to grow, migration patterns are in flux.
COVID-19 impacts ripple through every sector of the economy.
But who’s the enemy?
Under a pandemic, Trump backslides pollution and wildlife protection standards.
COVID-19 reverberates across the energy world.
Climate change and unregulated wells are depleting the West’s groundwater reserves.
Why a decisive societal response is needed.
The U.S. is a net exporter of petroleum, so why isn’t it energy independent?
Three years of rollbacks have taken a toll, without delivering real benefits.
Moving land-management HQ out of Washington illustrates the ‘deconstruction of the administrative state.’
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