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

Critical April 1 snowpack readings once again spell trouble, and new studies show the warming climate is lengthening dry spells and shrinking the snowpack, even in winter.

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

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

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (left) is running against Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) to represent Montana in the Senate. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images; Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Senate 2020: In Montana, Big Sky Country, Climate Change is Playing a Role in a Crucial Toss-Up Race

By Judy Fahys

In August 1910, hundreds of wildfires exploded over an area the size of Connecticut in the Bitterroot Mountains of Idaho and Montana. Credit: U.S. Forest Service

Huge Western Fires in 1910 Changed US Wildfire Policy. Will Today’s Conflagrations Do the Same?

By Michael Kodas

Smoky skies from the northern California wildfires turn the sky a glowing orange in San Francisco, California on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. Credit: Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images

As Wildfire Smoke Blots Out the Sun in Northern California, Many Ask: ‘Where Are the Birds?’

By Deborah Petersen

A firefighter douses flames as they push towards homes during the Creek fire in the Cascadel Woods area of unincorporated Madera County, California on September 7, 2020.

A Siege of 80 Large, Uncontained Wildfires Sweeps the Hot, Dry West

By Michael Kodas

China's paramilitary police officers evacuate a resident on a flooded street following heavy rain in Meishan in China's southwestern Sichuan province. Credit: STR/AFP via Getty Images

10 Days of Climate Extremes: From Record Heat to Wildfires to the One-Two Punch of Hurricane Laura

By Bob Berwyn

A firefighter from Carpinteria monitors the huge plume from the out-of-control Apple fire along Bluff Street, north of Banning during the coronavirus pandemic on August 1, 2020 in Cherry Valley, California. Credit: Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Ge

The Fires May be in California, but the Smoke, and its Health Effects, Travel Across the Country

By Evelyn Nieves, Michael Kodas

A fire truck drives through flames as the Hennessey fire continues to rage out of control near Lake Berryessa in Napa, California on August 18, 2020. Credit: JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images

California and Colorado Fires May Be Part of a Climate-Driven Global Transformation of Wildfires

By Michael Kodas

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