Surveys of U.S. landfills showed emission rates were, on average, 40% higher than reported.
Climate
Posted inAugust 2025: Fire Culture
The West’s data centers suck (water and power)
From simple searches to chatGPT, the big digital buildup threatens the grid and water supplies.
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Law enforcement surveilled Nevada lithium mine protesters, according to records
Activists opposed to the Thacker Pass mine were ‘under the microscope’ for years.
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In stressful times, what do the plants and animals have to say?
The time-honored tradition of humans looking to the natural world can help us survive difficult times.
Posted inJuly 2025: Seeds as Sustenance
Beneath the blazing sun, Black Phoenix sows community
Climate change is creating a mental health crisis in Phoenix. A budding movement in the desert might solve it.
Posted inJuly 2025: Seeds as Sustenance
Western states step up to save their wetlands
The West’s vital wetlands are in trouble — but states are working to safeguard them.
Posted inJuly 2025: Seeds as Sustenance
Our grief is what brings us together
On a rapidly warming planet, we are not alone in our fear.
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What Sonoran Desert fungi are teaching scientists
The understudied mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems and may prove critical to the survival of fragile deserts stressed by climate change.
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Can fracking wastewater be reused?
New Mexico’s legislators are eager to repurpose “produced water,” but environmental organizations say that there is no safe way to do that.
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Supreme Court puts Utah’s oil train back on the rails
The 8-0 decision overturned the U.S. Court of Appeals decision that the project’s environmental impact statement was insufficient.
Posted inJune 2025: The Promised Land
Sea otters to get another chance in Oregon and Northern California
The Siletz Tribe received a $1.56 million grant to reintroduce Xvlh-t’vsh.
Posted inJune 2025: The Promised Land
How to preserve a glacier’s legacy
Artists are called to document the existence, and disappearance, of glacier.
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USGS’ biological research arm could vanish
Trump is on a multipronged mission to eliminate a science agency that conservationists, toxicologists, universities and more call irreplaceable.
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DOGE is gutting AmeriCorps
The 30-year-old national service agency had tens of thousands working on climate change, conservation and disaster response in communities across the West.
Posted inMay 2025: The Art of the Cruise
Colorado’s rural electric co-ops are determined to go green
The federal government promised to pay for upgrades to keep utility rates down. Now what?
Posted inMay 2025: The Art of the Cruise
Behavior change is society change
How leaders influence our ideas about climate.
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El cambio de comportamiento es un cambio social
Cómo los líderes influyen en nuestras ideas sobre el cambio climático.
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The Eastern Shoshone are reclassifying buffalo as wildlife instead of livestock
The intent is to restore buffalo on the land and challenge the link between animal and product.
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The crusade to end federal public lands in New Mexico
Howard Hutchinson, a private property rights activist, leads a coalition that’s quietly organizing a county-level rejection of the Antiquities Act.