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Wyatt Myskow

Reporter, Phoenix

Wyatt Myskow covers drought, biodiversity and the renewable energy transition throughout the Western U.S. Based in Phoenix, he previously reported for The Arizona Republic and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Wyatt has lived in the Southwest since birth and graduated from Arizona State University with his bachelor’s degree in journalism.

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Republican Kari Lake faces off against Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego in the Arizona Senate Race. Credit: Jim Watson and Rebecca Noble/AFP via Getty Images

In Arizona’s Senate Race, Both Candidates Have Plans to Address Drought. But Only One Acknowledges Climate Change’s Role

By Wyatt Myskow

A groundwater well is used to irrigate a Cochise County nut orchard in rural Arizona. on March 1, 2022. Credit: Aydali Campa/Inside Climate News

A Rural Arizona Community May Soon Have a State Government Fix For Its Drying Wells

By Wyatt Myskow

Gary Wockner, founder of the nonprofit Save the Colorado, stands in front of Boulder Creek on Oct. 22 in Boulder, Colo. Wockner's group has been fighting an expansion of the Gross Reservoir west of Boulder. Credit: Michael Kodas/Inside Climate News

Federal Court Ruling on a Reservoir Expansion Could Have Big Implications for the Colorado River

By Wyatt Myskow

Mark Carrington exits his golf cart to look out on Lake Tamarisk, a man-made lake in Desert Center, Calif., on May 8, 2023. Credit: Alex Gould

As Solar Booms in the California Desert, Locals Feel ‘Overburdened’

By Wyatt Myskow

An Election for a Little-Known Agency Could Dictate the Future of Renewables in Arizona

By Wyatt Myskow

Three-year-old Layla glides down a slide at Kiwanis Park on a hot day in August in Tempe, Arizona. Credit: Kevin Hurley/Inside Climate News

Finding a Fix for Playgrounds That Are Too Hot to Touch

By Wyatt Myskow

Layla Maria, de 3 años, se desliza por un tobogán en el parque Kiwanis un caluroso día de agosto en Tempe, Arizona. Crédito: Kevin Hurley/Inside Climate News

En busca de soluciones para los parques infantiles donde el calor quema

By Wyatt Myskow

A view of utility-scale solar panels on public land in the California desert. Credit: Tom Brewster/Bureau of Land Management

BLM Plan for Solar on Public Lands Sparks Enthusiasm and Misgivings in Different Corners of the West

By Wyatt Myskow, Jake Bolster

Tiehm’s buckwheat, a small wildflower with yellow pom-poms, is an endemic species unique to the Silver Peak Range. Credit: Patrick Donnelly/Center for Biological Diversity

A Nevada Lithium Mine Nears Approval, Despite Threatening the Only Habitat of an Endangered Wildflower

By Wyatt Myskow

U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen, a Democrat and Nevada’s junior senator, is challenged by Republican Sam Brown in the upcoming election. Credit: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call and Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

In Nevada, Clean Energy Divides the Senate Race

By Wyatt Myskow

Outside a home in Arizona’s Pine-Strawberry community, a sign urges others to conserve water and that the water crisis in the district is real. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

Customers Sue an Arizona Water District Amid Drought and Surging Demand

By Wyatt Myskow

Melissa (left) and Steve Fry look out at the proposed mine site in the Galiuro Mountains outside Mammoth, Arizona, on March 14. Credit: Michael McKisson/Arizona Luminaria

Arizona Residents Fear What the State’s Mining Boom Will Do to Their Water

By Wyatt Myskow

Explorarory wells have damaged the water flow at Ha’Kamwe’, a hot spring sacred to the Hualapai Nation in Wikieup, Arizona. Credit: Ash Ponders/Earthjustice

Tribe Sues Interior Department Over Approval of Arizona Lithium Project

By Wyatt Myskow

An irrigation system waters an alfalfa field in Butler Valley, Arizona, on June 27, 2023. Credit: Caitlin O'Hara/The Washington Post via Getty Images

White House Looks to Safeguard Groundwater Supplies as Aquifers Decline Nationwide

By Wyatt Myskow

At the Salton Sea in California, geothermal plants could soon also extract lithium from brine water contained deep in the ground. But local community members and environmentalists worry about the impacts the mining will have on local water supplies. Credit: EcoFlight

Lithium Critical to the Energy Transition Is Coming at the Expense of Water

By Wyatt Myskow

An aerial view of Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, one of the most biodiverse places in the world. Credit: Patrick Donnelly/Center for Biological Diversity

As a Nevada Community Fights a Lithium Mine, a Rare Fish and Its Haven Could Be an Ace in the Hole

By Wyatt Myskow

A greater sage-grouse is seen flying through the Warner Mountains of Oregon. Credit: John Carlson/USFWS

Can the Greater Sage-Grouse Be Kept Off the Endangered Species List?

By Wyatt Myskow

The Silver Peak Range of Nevada is home to Tiehm’s buckwheat, a wildflower protected under the Endangered Species Act. Credit: Patrick Donnelly/Center for Biological Diversity

A Proposed Nevada Lithium Mine Could Destroy Critical Habitat for an Endangered Wildflower Found Nowhere Else in the World

By Wyatt Myskow

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