What’s behind the Alaska walrus haul-outs? Everyone’s calling climate change, but the truth is, we don’t know.
Climate change
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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.
Posted inAugust 18, 2014: Alaska's Uncertain Food Future
Boreal burning
Canada’s Northwest Territory goes up in flames, releasing massive amounts of carbon.
Posted inAugust 18, 2014: Alaska's Uncertain Food Future
Alaska’s Uncertain Food Future
Climate change in the Far North puts traditional food sources at risk.
Posted inAugust 18, 2014: Alaska's Uncertain Food Future
Climate canary
Greenhouse gases are changing the way we talk about coal.
Posted inAugust 4, 2014: Idaho's Sewer System
What the West will feel like in 2100
Scenarios for how our cities will change with the climate.
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Glacier tourists to get a dose of climate education in Alaska
What a melting glacier can teach cruise ship passengers.
Posted inAugust 4, 2014: Idaho's Sewer System
Climate changes for wolverine listing
What good can the Endangered Species Act do in a warming world?
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Was the fatal thunderstorm in California a climate phenomenon?
The weather of Venice Beach, California, where I live, is for the most part stable, and almost always predictable. No sudden squalls appear out of the southwest to chase skateboarders off their concrete ramps; never do we hear the civil-defense sirens warning of an approaching tornado. Living here, swimming and surfing at the beach a […]
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Colorado River Basin groundwater levels drop even faster than reservoirs
When Lake Mead is full it’s the largest reservoir in the U.S., capable of holding two years’ worth of water from the Colorado River. But the Southwest has been trapped in a 14-year drought, and the states Mead feeds – Nevada, Arizona and California – are thirsty. The reservoir is now only about half full […]
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‘Lucking out’ for Wyoming’s winter smog
Air quality gets a boost from the state’s infamous sagebrush and wind.