Skip to content
  • Science
  • Politics
  • Justice & Health
  • Fossil Fuels
  • Clean Energy
  • ICN Local
  • Projects
  • About Us
Inside Climate News
Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonpartisan reporting on the biggest crisis facing our planet.
Donate
Trump 2.0: The Reckoning
Inside Climate News
Donate

Search

  • Science
  • Politics
  • Justice & Health
  • Fossil Fuels
  • Clean Energy
  • ICN Local
  • Projects
  • About Us
  • Newsletters
  • ICN Sunday Morning
  • Contact Us

Topics

  • A.I. & Data Centers
  • Activism
  • Arctic
  • Biodiversity & Conservation
  • Business & Finance
  • Climate Law & Liability
  • Climate Treaties
  • Denial & Misinformation
  • Environment & Health
  • Extreme Weather
  • Food & Agriculture
  • Fracking
  • Nuclear
  • Pipelines
  • Plastics
  • Public Lands
  • Regulation
  • Super-Pollutants
  • Water/Drought
  • Wildfires

Information

  • About
  • Job Openings
  • Reporting Network
  • Whistleblowers
  • Memberships
  • Ways to Give
  • Fellows & Fellowships

Publications

  • E-Books
  • Documents

ICN Southwest

Evaporation ponds hold produced water amid the oil wells of the Permian Basin in Loco Hills, N.M. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

New Mexico Bans Release of Treated Oil and Gas Wastewater

By Carrie Klein

A groundwater pump supplies water to Quechan tribal land at the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation, along the Colorado River, on May 26, 2023, near Winterhaven, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Colorado River Basin Aquifers Are Declining Even More Steeply Than the River, New Research Shows

By Wyatt Myskow

The Gila River Indian Community in Arizona has lined 3,000 feet of their canals with solar panels. Credit: Jake Bolster/Inside Climate News

Gila River Tribes Intend to Float Solar Panels on a Reservoir. Could the Technology Help the Colorado River?

By Jake Bolster

Construction workers build a cinder block foundation for a new house on July 2, 2020, in Santa Fe, N.M. Credit: Robert Alexander/Getty Images

New Mexico Is the Latest State Developing Standards to Protect Workers in Extreme Heat

By Martha Pskowski

Patrick Donnelly, the Great Basin director for the Center for Biological Diversity, walks through an alkaline meadow in Fish Lake Valley on May 6. The valley used to be home to a series of streams and lakes that once provided habitat for fish like the Fish Lake Valley tui chub. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

Fish Threatened By Farms and Mining Set to Be First Species Listed As Endangered in Second Trump Term

By Wyatt Myskow

People cross the street during a dust storm on March 7 in downtown El Paso, Texas. Credit: Justin Hamel

El Paso Hasn’t Seen This Many Dust Storms Since the Dust Bowl

By Martha Pskowski

Engineers walk through Emirates Global Aluminum’s Al Taweelah smelter in the United Arab Emirates. Credit: Emirates Global Aluminum

Global Aluminum Producer Announces $4 Billion Smelter for Wind-Rich Oklahoma

By Phil McKenna

An abandoned oil well sits on a hillside on Tribal land near Farmington, N.M. Credit: Jerry Redfern/Capital & Main

Many on Navajo Nation Blindsided by Hydrogen Pipeline Change

By Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main

A budget amendment in Nevada would pave the way for the development of public land near the Gold Butte National Monument. Credit: Bureau of Land Management

Locals Oppose ‘Insane’ Plan to Sell 500,000 Acres of Public Lands for Housing in Nevada and Utah

By Wyatt Myskow

A swamp cooler is attached to a house in Denver, Colo. Credit: Cyrus McCrimmon/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Swamp Coolers’ Ability to Beat the Heat is Evaporating in Record Southwestern Temperatures

By Tina Deines

Skiers descend Arapahoe Basin Ski Area in Colorado on May 4. Snowpack across the mountains that supply the Colorado River is far below normal for this time of year. Forecasts call for 55 percent of average runoff into Lake Powell, the nation's second-largest reservoir. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

A Dry Winter on the Colorado River Has Big Reservoirs on Track for Trouble

By Alex Hager, KUNC

Hector Denogean Sr. stands the Mammoth Miners Memorial in Southern Arizona. Denogean says he can’t support a new mine that may take more water out of the drying region. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

In Southern Arizona, Community Opposition to Mining Grows in Towns That Once Depended on the Industry

By Wyatt Myskow, Yana Kunichoff

An aerial view of Oak Flat in Arizona. Credit: EcoFlight

Oak Flat is Sacred to Western Apache. The Trump Administration Intends to Approve a Plan to Destroy It

By Wyatt Myskow

Mosquitoes fly over the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Climate Change Is Helping Heartworm Spread to Pets in the Mountain West

By Tina Deines

Rolling hills of sage are spotted with oil and gas developments on leased land in Jackson County, Colo. Credit: AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post

Amid Questions of Loyalty to Trump, a Longtime Oil and Gas Advocate Withdraws as Nominee to Lead BLM

By Jake Bolster

In Washington Township, Mich., a gas pipeline in wetlands in Stony Creek Metropark. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

New Study Shows Extreme and Far-Reaching Impacts of Sackett Ruling on Federal Wetland Protections

By Lauren Dalban

An aerial view of the Colorado River near the Glen Canyon Dam in Page, Ariz., as drought conditions affect the Southwest on June 18, 2024. Credit: Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images

Despite Staff and Budget Cuts, NOAA Issues Critical Drought Warnings in Its Spring Climate Outlook

By Bob Berwyn

Owen Crowlie and Trevor Lauber display their protest signs to visitors of Chiricahua National Monument on March 15 in Cochise County, Ariz. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

As Americans Protest Attacks on Public Lands, Trump Signals National Monuments May be Shrunk or Eliminated

By Wyatt Myskow

Posts pagination

Prev 1 2 3 4 … 11 Next

Southwest Newsletter

Wyatt Myskow

Reporter

Noel Lyn Smith

Fellow

Emma Peterson

Emma Peterson

Contributor

Partners

  • Apache Messenger
  • Arizona Daily Sun
  • AZ Luminaria
  • Green Fire Times
  • Herald/Review Media
  • Indian Country Today
  • KJZZ
  • Nevada Independent
  • Phoenix New Times
  • Source New Mexico
  • Tucson Sentinel

Keep Environmental Journalism Alive

ICN provides award-winning climate coverage free of charge and advertising. We rely on donations from readers like you to keep going.

Donate Now
Inside Climate News
  • Science
  • Politics
  • Justice & Health
  • Fossil Fuels
  • Clean Energy
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Whistleblowers
  • Privacy Policy
  • Charity Navigator
Inside Climate News uses cookies. By continuing to use this site, you accept this policy. Learn More