Shades of hope for uranium’s forgotten victims

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We’re still throwing horses overboard

by Deanne Stillman

During the 16th century when conquistadors crossed the ocean from the Old World to the New, their ships often became stranded along the equator at a place where the winds stopped blowing. To lighten their load, they would throw horses overboard. Eventually, the sails would fill with air and the voyage could continue.  Over time, […]

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New face, old body

by denvern

The dissolution of the Minerals Management Service has led to a revival of two venerated bureaucratic traditions: infighting and hoarding of office supplies. While BP-owned oil continues gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, the section of the Department of the Interior tasked with regulating offshore drilling and collecting royalties has been dissolved and divided into […]

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Pacific Salmon’s Deranged Geographies

by josephtaylor

Not long ago, Pacific salmon geographies of harvest, consumption, and reproduction were conterminous. Forten millennia, where fish spawned was also where they were caught and eaten, but in the last two centuries industrial fishing techniques launched harvestersdownstream and out to sea, while salting, canning, and freezing technologies expanded consumption across time and space. We now […]

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Natural gas comes on strong

by Stephanie Paige Ogburn

If natural gas was going to try and pick me up at a bar, the encounter would likely go like this: Gas: “I’m low-carbon, cute, and widely available.” Me: “You’re not that cute.” While natural gas keeps getting play as the “bridge fuel” that will help the United States reduce carbon dioxide emissions, it’s no […]

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Wile E. wins again

by Michelle Nijhuis

In February, I reported for High Country News on the possible evidence of wolves at the High Lonesome Ranch, an enormous ranch in northwestern Colorado owned by Texas attorney Paul Vahldiek, Jr. During visits over a seven-month period, biologist Cristina Eisenberg, an Oregon State University doctoral student employed by the ranch, had collected scat and seen […]

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A Grand Disappointment

by Ed Quillen

This May, National Geographic Press published Running Dry: A Journey from Source to Sea Down the Colorado River. It’s by Jonathan Waterman, who lives on 20 acres near Carbondale, Colo.  As someone who follows water issues, I wanted to like this book. But I couldn’t.   That’s because I ran across so many errors at […]

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Net losses

by Hillary Rosner

Four endangered fish species currently live in the mainstem of the Colorado River. Several other endangered native fishes — including the woundfin, desert pupfish and Gila topminnow — used to live there but now survive only in the river’s tributaries or in man-made habitats. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with […]

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Wolf case highlights need for collaboration

by mikeleahy

Sometimes no news is good news, so I’ll count last week’s relatively uneventful oral arguments as a boon for continued wolf recovery efforts in the northern Rockies. But the mood both inside and outside the U.S. district courthouse in Missoula shows there’s still much work to be done to ensure sustainable wolf management in the […]

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Clash of the museums

by Betsy Marston

NEVADAThat city of excess, Las Vegas, is outdoing itself by hosting not just one, but two new museums dedicated to the Mafia and the “moral turpitude of organized crime,” reports the New York Times. Is there a little problem of duplication? Not at all, says Las Vegas Mayor Oscar B. Goodman (the city is building […]

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