Extreme heat doesn’t discriminate; the ability to escape it does.
Infographic
Posted inJuly 2024
Abandoned mines cover the West
Their legacy is destruction and pollution of lands and waters.
Posted inJune 2024: The Idea of Wilderness
Water inequality on the Colorado River
A new accounting reveals deep disparities in Western water consumption.
Posted inMay 2024: A River Returns
The West remains cattle country
Livestock has indelibly altered the region’s land, water and air.
Posted inApril 2024: Epic Journeys
The great solar build-out
Public-land managers ponder where to allow utility-scale solar projects
Posted inApril 2024: Epic Journeys
What’s going on with natural gas exports?
The U.S. is the world’s largest exporter of LNG, but President Biden just paused new permits.
Posted inArticles
Disaster disparities in the West
The risk of climate catastrophe is complex, but people of color often face ‘unnatural hazards.’
Posted inMarch 2024: Fertile Ground
The West’s hazardous highways
America’s car culture kills people
and wrecks communities.
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 inDecember 1, 2023: December 2023
The Endangered Species Act by the numbers
Half a century of wins and losses.
Posted inOctober 2, 2023: The Dark Side of the Sheepherding Industry
New legislation is creating a clean-energy project pulse
Will the manufacturing renaissance finally displace fossil fuels?
Posted inSeptember 1, 2023: Food Justice
Who owns the West?
Increasingly, land is shifting into the hands of billionaires.
Posted inAugust 1, 2023: In the Line of Fire
An antiquated law rules mining in the West
Can the U.S. finally vanquish one of the most enduring Lords of Yesterday?
Posted inJuly 1, 2023: Waiting for Water
Public education in the West is running short of funds
Is the ‘grand foundation’ crumbling?
Posted inJune 1, 2023: Seen and Unseen
Geothermal: Hot or not?
This old, abundant, relatively clean energy source has barely been tapped.
Posted inMay 1, 2023: Reemergence
Seeking sanctuary on a warming planet
Scientists look to identify, map and preserve climate change refugia.
Posted inApril 1, 2023: The Path Forward
Why electrify?
The push to evict natural gas appliances from buildings, explained.
Posted inFebruary 1, 2023: The Reveal
Save public lands: Put solar on Walmart!
Parking lots and big-box store roofs could generate oodles of clean power.
Posted inJanuary 1, 2023: Ripple Effects
La Niña expected to serve up a hat trick
The weather pattern hits the West for a third consecutive winter.
Posted inDecember 1, 2022: Beyond Illusion
Carbon capture convolution
A complicated process, explained.