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A Crisis Of Water And Power On The Colorado River

In an aerial view, polygonal blocks of giant desiccation cracks (GDCs), as geologists have dubbed them, are seen near Red Lake on June 28, 2021 north of Kingman, Arizona during an exceptional drought. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Drier Springs Bring Hotter Summers in the Withering Southwest

By Judy Fahys

Long time coal miner Billy Griffith pauses while working at a coal prep plant on May 19, 2017 outside the city of Welch, West Virginia. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

As the US Pursues Clean Energy and the Climate Goals of the Paris Agreement, Communities Dependent on the Fossil Fuel Economy Look for a Just Transition

By Judy Fahys

Phil Harrison views a uranium loading bin left behind from the mining era, which stretched from the 1940s to the 1980s. Credit: Cheyanne M. Daniels/MNS

The US Nuclear Weapons Program Left ‘a Horrible Legacy’ of Environmental Destruction and Death Across the Navajo Nation

By Cheyanne M. Daniels

Nancy Bitsue, an elderly member of the Navajo Nation, receives her monthly water delivery in the town of Thoreau on June 6, 2019 in Thoreau, New Mexico. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

The Pandemic Exposed the Severe Water Insecurity Faced by Southwestern Tribes

By Judy Fahys

In the West, Signs in the Snow Warn That a 20-Year Drought Will Persist and Intensify

By Bob Berwyn, Judy Fahys

Yaak Valley. Photo by Anthony South, Yaak Landscape Photography, Yaak Valley Forest Council

Trump’s Forest Service Planned More Logging in the Yaak Valley, Environmentalists Want Biden To Make it a ‘Climate Refuge’

By Judy Fahys

U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM), at the U.S. Capitol in January 2019.

What’s On Interior’s To-Do List? A Full Plate of Public Lands Issues—and Trump Rollbacks—for Deb Haaland

By Judy Fahys

Construction crews work at the scene where a section of Highway 1 collapsed into the Pacific Ocean near Big Sur, California on Jan. 31, 2021. Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images

A Surge From an Atmospheric River Drove California’s Latest Climate Extremes

By Bob Berwyn

Devastation is seen after the Pine Gulch Fire on Aug. 27, 2020 near De Beque, Colorado. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Climate Change Ravaged the West With Heat and Drought Last Year; Many Fear 2021 Will Be Worse

By Judy Fahys

Congress Passed a Bipartisan Conservation Law. Then the Trump Administration Got in its Way

By Judy Fahys

If Aridification Choked the Southwest for Thousands of Years, What Does The Future Hold?

By Judy Fahys

Three ski-mountaineers ascending Mount Hood, Oregon. Credit: Terray Sylvester Ð VWPics/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Energizing People Who Play Outside to Exercise Their Civic Muscles at the Ballot Box

By Judy Fahys

he smoke wave and pyrocumulus cloud from the East Troublesome Fire. Photo taken at 6:06pm 10-21-20 from Coal Creek Heights Dr. at an elevation of 8762 ft. looking NNW. The most prominent peak is Bald Mountain on the south end of Indian Peaks Wilderness.

Clouds of Concern Linger as Wildfires Drag into Flu Season and Covid Numbers Swell

By Judy Fahys

Bighorn sheep like these in Unaweep Canyon and wild, wide-open spaces on the Uncompahgre Plateau of western Colorado are threatened by decisions tied to the de facto leader at the Bureau of Land Management, say the state of Montana and conservation groups

A Judge's Ruling Ousted Federal Lands Chief. Now Some Want His Decisions Tossed, Too

By Judy Fahys

The Baytown Exxon gas refinery produces the more processed oil than any other facility in the United States on March 23, 2006 in Baytown, TX. (Photo by Benjamin Lowy/Reportage by Getty Images)

Exxon Touts Carbon Capture as a Climate Fix, but Uses It to Maximize Profit and Keep Oil Flowing

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Hickenlooper and Gardner

Senate 2020: In Colorado, Where Climate Matters, Hickenlooper is Favored to Unseat Gardner

By Judy Fahys

Astronaut Mark Kelly (left) is running against Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) in a special election to represent Arizona in the Senate.

Senate 2020: With Record Heat, Climate is a Big Deal in Arizona, but It May Not Sway Voters

By Judy Fahys

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