What comes next for Lake Powell?
Climate
How climate and cost cramp bigleaf maple syrup production.
Planning for the future of groundwater also offers an opportunity to plan for climate justice.
As industry transitions away from fossil fuels, its profits will fall behind remediation costs.
The state’s legislative session has just begun. Here are the bills climate activists are watching.
That could doom the state’s plan to fight climate change with the help of nature.
‘You can’t put half a whale in a little home freezer.’
In 2016, David Cottrell dropped $400 worth of rock on Washaway Beach to see what would happen. Now engineers are watching, too.
A recent Interior Department grant aims to help residents in Newtok move to higher ground, but it’s just a sliver of what’s needed.
A new research and monitoring program aims to conserve threatened but overlooked saline ecosystems.
A conversation with Natalie Koch, author of ‘Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arabia and Arizona.’
The weather pattern hits the West for a third consecutive winter.
Scientists wage an upstream battle to save trout in a warming West.
Scientists and farmers fight against the homogenization of nature to return native pollinators to the Golden State.
Scientists think climate change may be the culprit.
A proposed LNG project spanning the state would export natural gas, but could harm land, wildlife & subsistence harvests.
A project in Wyoming’s coal region brings the new technology, but critics say it carries unacceptable risks.
A complicated process, explained.
The $250 million commitment will support public health and habitat while conserving Colorado River water.
Researchers are trying to understand what drives snow algal blooms and how they could alter water supplies.
The keystone species’ habitat in New Mexico is threatened by wildfire prevention and the climate crisis.
LA’s Echo Park Trash Club supports its unhoused neighbors by helping them stay in place.
Some places in Imperial County, California, experienced 117 days above 100 degrees this year.
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