The connections between the environment, race and the COVID-19 crisis are many.
Climate
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Heartache, compounded
After her son’s death, a writer searches for a path forward through personal and climate grief.
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Bay Area towns need to address sea-level rise. Will they?
‘It’s not natural for them to cooperate.’
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Climate change has setnetters worried about Alaska’s sockeye
Last year, the state’s Ugashik River was so warm salmon wouldn’t swim up it to spawn.
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Jordan Cove pipeline moves forward, despite Oregon’s opposition
The company insists the pipeline will help Gov. Kate Brown recover economically from COVID-19.
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How do you fight wildfire during a pandemic?
Keeping first responders socially distant, and evacuating communities safely, would be a challenge.
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Trump admin sprints to weaken environmental protections during pandemic
‘There’s a lot they want to get done before the election, just in case.’
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Fast-growing Western cities face megadrought
Eleven states and northern Mexico will likely experience a drought more severe than any since the 1500s.
Posted inMay 1, 2020: Lives on Lockdown
Pandemic as prologue
A failure of imagination has stymied our outbreak response, but that’s just the beginning.
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How climate research continues during stay-at-home orders
NOAA networks get creative to gather data.
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How the pandemic will set back environmental science
Across the Western U.S., researchers are worried about unmonitored threatened species.
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Extreme wildfires are changing Western forests
New studies show how high-intensity fires alter flower pollen, soil health and tree growth.
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After the Camp Fire, Paradise is still home
How our connection to place will shape the future of the West.
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Air pollution and COVID-19 could be a dangerous cocktail
Pollution already makes breathing harder for some. Will the pandemic follow similar patterns?
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Tribal nations demand response to climate relocation
Five Indigenous communities have asked the U.N. to investigate the United States’ failure to live up to legal obligations.
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As temperatures rise, Arizona sinks
Climate change and unregulated wells are depleting the West’s groundwater reserves.
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The road to ecofascism is paved with green intentions
Why fusing nationalism and naturalism is a bad idea.
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Gift and theft in the far North
‘Floating Coast,’ the first comprehensive history of the Bering Strait, offers a lesson in ecological economics.
Posted inMarch 16, 2020: Wiring the Wild
The Backcountry Film Festival struggles to balance self-awareness and escapism
The 15th annual film series unevenly grapples with the paradox of the winter rec industry.