A Rare Plant Got Endangered Species Protection This Week, but Already Faces Threats to Its Habitat Lithium led Tiehm’s buckwheat to evolve on a 10-acre plot in Nevada. Now the flower is threatened both by a mine for the metal that’s critical for the energy transition and grazing cattle. By Wyatt Myskow
‘It Is Going to Take Real Cuts to Everyone’: Leaders Meet to Decide the Future of the Colorado River By Alex Hager, KUNC
Carbon Removal Is Coming to Fossil Fuel Country. Can It Bring Jobs and Climate Action? By Nicholas Kusnetz
Corn Nourishes the Hopi Identity, but Climate-Driven Drought Is Stressing the Tribe’s Foods and Traditions By David Wallace
In the US West, Researchers Consider a Four-Legged Tool to Fight Two Foes: Wildfire and Cheatgrass By Emma Foehringer Merchant
Two Areas in Rural Arizona Might Finally Gain Protection of Their Groundwater This Year By Aydali Campa
As Lake Powell Hits Landmark Low, Arizona Looks to a $1 Billion Investment and Mexican Seawater to Slake its Thirst By Aydali Campa
Bill Gates’ Vision for Next-Generation Nuclear Power in Wyoming Coal Country By Hal Bernton, Seattle Times, and Judy Fahys, Inside Climate News
Q&A: A Republican Congressman Hopes to Spread a New GOP Engagement on Climate from Washington, D.C. to Glasgow By Judy Fahys