Tag: US West
What the extreme fire seasons of 1910 and 2020 – and...
Kyra Clark-Wolf, University of Colorado Boulder and Philip Higuera, University of Montana
Strong winds blew across mountain slopes after...
Supreme Court rules the US is not required to ensure access...
Robert Glennon, University of Arizona
The Navajo Nation, the largest Native American reservation in the U.S., covers 27,000 square...
Epic snow from all those atmospheric rivers in the West is...
Chad Hecht, University of California, San Diego
To get a sense of the enormous amount of water atmospheric rivers...
The West’s iconic forests are increasingly struggling to recover from wildfires...
Kimberley Davis, United States Forest Service; Jamie Peeler, University of Montana, and Philip Higuera, University of Montana
Wildfires and...
Wolf restoration in Colorado shows how humans are rethinking their relationships...
Christopher J. Preston, University of Montana
From sports to pop culture, there are few themes more appealing than a...
As climate change and overuse shrink Lake Powell, the emergent landscape...
Daniel Craig McCool, University of Utah
As Western states haggle over reducing water use because of declining flows in...
Wildfires reshape forests and change the behavior of animals that live there
Taylor Ganz, University of Washington
In the arid American West, wildfires now define summer. Recent years have seen some...
A water strategy for the parched West: Have cities pay farmers...
Robert Glennon, University of Arizona
“Are you going to run out of water?” is the first question people ask...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
