ICN Mountain West

Lessons From Salt Lakes for Making a Home in a Changing World

By Wyatt Myskow

Colorado River Negotiations Resume With Focus on Stopgap Measures

Scott Franz, KUNC

The Latest Front in the Battle Over Climate Lawsuits: Bills Wiping Out Liability

By Dana Drugmand

A Little-Used Maneuver Could Mean More Drilling and Mining in Southern Utah’s Redrock Country

By Georgina Gustin

New Lawsuit Aims to Halt Expansion of a Montana Coal Mine Blamed for Drying up the Land Above It

Story and photos by Jake Bolster

Supreme Court to Decide Key Issue in Fate of State and City Suits Against Oil Companies Over Climate Change

By Lee Hedgepeth

A Groundbreaking Geothermal Heating and Cooling Network Saves This Colorado College Money and Water

By Phil McKenna

Colorado River Negotiators Are Nearly Out of Time and Snowpack

By Jake Bolster, Wyatt Myskow

In Arizona, Utilities and State Regulators Double Down on Fossil Fuels and Higher Costs Despite Residents’ Opposition

By Wyatt Myskow

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is Yet Again Under Threat, This Time From Congress

By Wyatt Myskow

A Record Wildfire Season Inspires Wyoming to Prepare for an Increasingly Fiery Future

By Jake Bolster

Trump’s Push for Coal in Colorado Could Bring ‘Massive’ Harm to Public Lands and Rural Communities, Advocates Say

By Jake Bolster

Wyoming County Approves Construction of What Could Become the Largest Data Center in US

By Leigh Reagan Smith

Are Declining Stocking Rates Underexplored By Scientists?

By Jake Bolster

The Environmental and Cultural Benefits of Restoring the American Prairie

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

More Children Are Powering Their Own Wheels to School as Part of ‘Bike Buses’

By Tina Deines

An Idaho Bird Research Station Rises From the Ashes of a Wildfire

By William von Herff

The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff