Climate change? Treaty rights? Sure, but the real killer is The Market.
Climate change
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New cloud seeding study from Wyoming
Research renews the debate about whether scientists can really make more rain.
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Conflicting forecasts for natural gas
A new study suggests that estimates for U.S. supplies may be vastly overstated.
Posted inNovember 24, 2014: Transportation Transformation
For climate activists, a bright spot in a dismal election
Environmentalists in the Pacific Northwest may lead the way.
Posted inNovember 10, 2014: Fallout
USGS launches a billion-dollar initiative to map the West in 3D
LIDAR is about to become more widespread — helping agriculture, pilots and homeowners.
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Mission Ready for Climate Change
Five things the West can learn from the military about climate adaptation.
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NASA finds methane hot spot over Four Corners
The culprit is the extensive fossil fuel industry infrastructure, not just fracking or coal mines.
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The walrus detectives
What’s behind the Alaska walrus haul-outs? Everyone’s calling climate change, but the truth is, we don’t know.
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Climate change found to have spurred worldwide heatwaves
But floods and droughts have less certain links to planetary warming.
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Faces of the grassroots climate movement: rowdy and rowdier
Marches around the country this week show ideological diversity among a new cohort of activists.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
Teaching aliens to talk
How global warming made me change my life.
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How the hot and dry West is killing Rocky Mountain forests
A new report summarizes how climate change is accelerating tree death from fires, bark beetles and drought
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
Forgetting we live in the desert
Rafael de Grenade on tough landscapes, writing as inquiry and climate change.
Posted inSeptember 1, 2014: Lost in the Woods
On the hunt for fireflies in Utah
Scientists find the flashing bugs after a 30-year search.
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Nevada wins the Tesla battery factory giga-race
Massive incentive package raises questions about corporate welfare.
Posted inSeptember 1, 2014: Lost in the Woods
Zen and the art of wildflower science
In the Rocky Mountains, a long-term study yields surprises.
Posted inSeptember 1, 2014: Lost in the Woods
A dam difficult job
California’s drought through the eyes of a water manager.
Posted inSeptember 1, 2014: Lost in the Woods
Smoke and mirrors
Congress can’t seem to solve a big problem: how to pay for battling wildfires.