Portland’s fluoridation battle shows how tricky it is to integrate science into debates that have as much to do with values as policy.
Don’t drink the water
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A baseball stadium showcases the beauty of old trees
Some Eugene, Oregon, residents hate their town’s dilapidated Civic Stadium. They’d like to see it torn down and replaced with a department store. Other residents love the stadium and have happy memories of watching minor league baseball with friends and family. But everyone agrees the stadium is now an eyesore. It’s one of the few […]
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The Earth has half as many animals as it did in 1970
In the Western U.S., megafauna is on the rise — but amphibians are in trouble.
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Climate change found to have spurred worldwide heatwaves
But floods and droughts have less certain links to planetary warming.
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Watershed moment
The U.S. and Canada prepare to renegotiate the 50-year-old Columbia River Treaty.
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Rants from the Hill: How to Cuss in Western
When “Airin’ the Lungs” is registered at the swear jar.
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Extreme Makeover, the BLM episode
How a gigantic federal bureaucracy is positioning itself to manage resources at a “landscape” level.
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Navajo language threatens candidate’s presidential bid
Chris Deschene faces disqualification over lack of fluency.
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Colorado’s first legal hemp harvest since 1957 is underway
But a ban on seed transport hampers farmers.
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Colorado’s river economy worth $9 billion
Outdoor recreation businesses say state water plan must do more to protect rivers.
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Can Hickenlooper get his middle-of-the-road magic back?
The Colorado governor has Democratic politicians calmed and fractivists pissed.
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More pesticides are permeating urban streams
But rural rivers are getting cleaner, a new study says.
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Trail dogs do the grunt work on our public lands
Trail dogs — that’s what trail workers across the country call themselves. It tells you what life is like for the thousands of young men and women who spend their summers tending to the travel corridors on our country’s public lands. Trail dogs really do work like dogs, cutting back brush, sawing through trees and […]
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Keys to South Dakota Senate race: Tribal votes and Keystone XL
Is the die already cast for the upcoming election?
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A public land swap for the rich
As a deal gets sweetened, how do you measure what’s fair?
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Is Denver the Houston of the Rockies — again?
Even greenie hotspots get their economic mojo from fossil fuels.
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Faces of the grassroots climate movement: rowdy and rowdier
Marches around the country this week show ideological diversity among a new cohort of activists.
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KDNK speaks with HCN reporter John Calderazzo
Scientists who study climate change can be remarkably bad at communicating findings.
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A doubter’s approach to the bagging dilemma
The brown paper bag I carried out of the bookstore wasn’t there for the sake of discretion. Truth be told, the bookstore refuses to handle plastic anymore. Ideally, the clerk told me, it was on the verge of going entirely bagless, so I was lucky to be handed a brown paper sack. But it was raining, […]