A new climate change novel predicts a dystopian West of sand and refugees.
California
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Massive leaks are an everyday occurrence in gas fields
California’s Aliso Canyon is a reminder that methane emissions are widespread, poorly regulated — and ongoing.
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How the feds can ensure Western states get more water in 2016
Key legislation failed in 2015. Will this year be any different?
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California relocates residents whose wells have gone dry
Residents explain why the new drought program may or may not work for them.
Posted inDecember 21, 2015: Secrets of the Deep
These are your state’s gun laws
In the wake of mass killings, a state-by-state look at Western gun policy.
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Slow-motion methane disaster
Aliso Canyon has leaked more greenhouse gases in two months than a coal mine does in a year.
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Is the West prepared for climate change?
A new report shows most states are vulnerable to future increases in extreme heat, drought, and flooding.
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Early season snowpack falls short across the West
Nevada and Idaho are the only Western states above their historic averages.
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Millions in debt, a community wonders if its water source will provide
This master-planned community must keep building to survive, despite the drought.
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Rants from the Hill: As winter looms, a final foray to close out the season
My annual transect of our neighborhood mountain takes a turn for the perilous.
Posted inDecember 7, 2015: Good Neighbors
Latest: California’s plan for conservation-minded energy development takes its first step forward
The Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan is intended to guide energy development, while protecting wildlife and recreation.
Posted inNovember 23, 2015: Water Hustle
On the unease of violent people
Review of T.C. Boyle’s ‘The Harder They Come.”
Posted inNovember 23, 2015: Water Hustle
The tenuous revival of Mono Lake
Its defenders won a long fight over water with Los Angeles. Now, drought is raising new questions about its future.
Posted inNovember 23, 2015: Water Hustle
Could Los Angeles design its way to water independence?
A pair of architects are reinvisioning the city’s relationship with water, starting with storm runoff.
Posted inNovember 23, 2015: Water Hustle
You are on Indian Land: A provocative look at contemporary art
A multimedia exhibit at the Museum of Northern Arizona
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Innovation amid drought in the Sacramento Delta
Checking in with a farmer who traded some of his water for long term survival.
Posted inOctober 26, 2015: Clean Energy's Dirty Secret
Fish and Wildlife and integrity, a rental crisis, California homelessness and more.
Hcn.org news in brief.
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Green energy’s dirty secret
Industrial solar and wind endanger wildlife but are getting more support than ever.
Posted inOctober 26, 2015: Clean Energy's Dirty Secret
In the Mojave, a new relationship with trash
A new arrival finds traces of what we discard and what we bury deep inside.
Posted inOctober 12, 2015: The Rise of Lisa Murkowski
For the Lassics lupine, wilderness is a mixed blessing
The Wilderness Act has complicated efforts to protect the rare California wildflower.