Climate Change
Study: Droughts are growing hotter under climate change
By Nicholas Gerbis | Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018
Researchers say if you only include months classified as dry, you see that there’s almost double the shift in temperature.
Those who live off the land in southern Colorado feel the drought’s reach
By Grace Hood | Thursday, July 19, 2018
Every day, southwestern Colorado rancher Matt Isgar starts an increasingly complex puzzle. The goal is to find food for his 135 cattle.
Think you can escape pollution by going to a national park? Think again
By Emily Guerin | Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Pollution in Joshua Tree National Park was almost as bad as in Los Angeles over more than a decade.
California slashes carbon emissions below 1990 levels, but hardest work lies ahead
By Emily Guerin | Monday, July 16, 2018
California reached 2020 emissions reduction goals four years early. Now they have to crack down on cow farts and car exhaust
Invasive cheatgrass fuels Nevada’s worst wildfire, devastates sage grouse habitat
By Daniel Rothberg | Friday, July 13, 2018
The highly flammable weed was accidentally introduced to America through contaminated seed and straw packing materials
Climate change brings hotter, drier winds – ramping up intensity of wildfires in the West
By David Nazar | Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Fires are most challenging where hillside wildlands and densified urban sprawl intersect
Arizona, U.S. and tribal officials work to save native Apache Trout from extinction
By Gabriel Sandler | Monday, June 25, 2018
Forest fires, climate change and the wrath of non-native fish are threatening the survival of the Apache trout, a species found only in Arizona.