After 40 years of service, Andy Wiessner steps off HCN’s board of directors.
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Posted inNovember 2025: Precious Metalheads
Hosts with the most
Holding board meetings and meeting the challenges.
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La carrera armamentística nuclear pone a prueba el laboratorio de Los Álamos
El laboratorio donde Oppenheimer desarrolló la bomba atómica es el eje del esfuerzo de EE. UU. por modernizar sus armas nucleares. Pero el centro ha enfrentado incidentes de contaminación, interrupciones de obras e infraestructuras obsoletas.
Posted inOctober 2025: Limits to Growth
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La reconciliación significa encontrarse con un paisaje en sus propios términos
Posted inOctober 2025: Limits to Growth
Loopy lagomorphs, warning off wolves, the best of Buddys and diminutive dinosaurs
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Posted in2025
HCN and Report for America launch environmental reporting partnership
High Country News and Report for America are seeking local and statewide newsrooms to build an environmental reporting network for the Western U.S.
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Posted inJanuary 1, 2024: January 2024
I married a cookstove scientist
My reluctant journey to ditching our gas stove.
Posted inJanuary 1, 2024: January 2024
Homeowner’s insurance is going up in smoke
A Q&A with California’s former insurance commissioner about coverage in the age of climate change.
Posted inJanuary 1, 2024: January 2024
12 not-so-easy steps to decarbonize the grid
Electrifying will make a difference if that power comes from clean sources.
Posted inJanuary 1, 2024: January 2024
Labor unions and environmentalists are working together on the energy transition
In 2023, groups found solidarity on the climate, but work lies ahead.
Posted inJanuary 1, 2024: January 2024
Climate Vigil aims to channel prayer into action
Christians in eastern Oregon fight for a safe climate as a human — and moral — right.
Posted inJanuary 1, 2024: January 2024
The New Mexico co-op breaking up with fossil fuels
An 80-year-old electricity supplier goes all in on decarbonization.
Posted inJanuary 1, 2024: January 2024
How kung-fu heroes can grow our climate consciousness
‘It’s an intentional alignment with a certain kind of underground resistance.’
Posted inJanuary 1, 2024: January 2024
An Alaska Native mutual aid network tackles the climate crisis
The Smokehouse Collective invests in “our resilience as Native peoples to persevere in our cultures despite the global impacts we are facing.”
Posted inJanuary 1, 2024: January 2024
‘We recognize the sentience in other things’
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
Posted inNovember 1, 2023: November 1, 2023
Contemplating Cormac McCarthy
On pain specific to America and artistic influence.
Posted inNovember 1, 2023: November 1, 2023
Kasigluk endures the many challenges of thawing permafrost
Residents of the Alaska village maintain community in the face of climate change.