And it’s tethered — in ways both identifiable and mysterious — to microbes, whales, ice shelves and landfills.
You have a second body
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A heat wave is about to hit the Southwest
Consider sharing your experience with us.
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Copper Mine near Tucson dealt a blow
But the Canadian company gets a win for its other, nearby operation at Copper World.
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The shift to green energy, obstructed
A whole host of factors has thrown the transition away from fossil fuels to more sustainable forms of energy off track.
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Worrying about the dust next door in this Montana mining town
Residents of a Butte neighborhood are concerned about what’s wafting from a nearby open-pit mine that can coat their homes and vehicles.
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Nebraska’s curious ‘canal to nowhere’ would siphon water from Colorado
Water experts say the $500 million project won’t really do anything to help the Cornhusker State’s water supplies. What’s going on?
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Reconsidering Wilma Mankiller
As the Cherokee Nation’s first female chief’s image is minted onto a coin, her full humanity should be examined.
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Wildlife in the West: The good, the bad, the in-between
Conservation and wildlife corridors can help, but is it enough?
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Witness to the Cold War in the desert
Terry Tempest Williams on Emmet Gowin’s unflinching photos of the Nevada Test Site.
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Letters to the editor, June 2022
Comments from readers.
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Idiot invasion; outhouse fail; rim-to-rim rule rupture
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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Too hot to handle
The dangerously hot future is here. How will we respond?
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Meet you in the metaverse
Well, how about at a HCN Live! event?
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When the heat is unbearable but there’s nowhere to go
How last year’s record-breaking heat wave caused misery and chaos for Washington’s incarcerated population — and why it’s set to happen all over again.
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How cooking, eating and harvesting beach greens ties a family together
An Inupiaq writer remembers her family roots through a favorite dish.
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New study finds DDT in California condors
Chemicals dumped in the 1970s are still seeping into the food chain. But the Yurok Tribe is confident their birds will be OK.
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Who’s after rare metals in the Klamath Mountains?
While the region has a small cache of tellurium, politics and economics are in the way.
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Unprecedented fire, wind and snowmelt in the Southwest
This may not be the driest winter, the worst fire season or even the warmest spring on record, but taken together the conditions truly are superlative.
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poem after a poem by césar vallejo w/ a nod to donald justice
A poem by Jay Hopler.