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Category: Climate Change
Challenging conditions have endangered, threatened, or imperiled these five native fish in the Grand Canyon.
Beneath the bathtub ring at Lake Powell, native plants are flourishing, cultural sites are resurfacing, and whitewater rapids are returning.
Estonian-owned oil shale giant is barred from siphoning 100 billion gallons of water from a Colorado River tributary.
What species are found in the Colorado River Basin and nowhere else on Earth?
Springs are the lifeblood of the forests, canyons, and communities of the arid Southwest.
It’s time for the thousands of orphan wells across the Colorado Plateau to be closed and cleaned up.
A new study shows a diminishing supply of groundwater in the Grand Canyon region. A proposed development in Tusayan could threaten it further.
From Arches to Canyonlands to Capitol Reef, what’s on the auction block?
How to start the conversation with climate-change skeptics in your own family this holiday season.
Enefit’s oil shale project would suck over 100 billion gallons of water from the Colorado River Basin over the next three decades.
Dig into the true price of mining coal on federal public lands.
Is Flagstaff ready for climate change? Take the survey!
We need to stop locking science up in the lab, and bring it to the people.
Under the direction of Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency may “protect” the environment in name only.
We all make decisions about future risks. So what’s different about climate change risk, then? The consequences of losing.
The third of four blog post exploring climate change on the North Rim Ranches.
The second of four blog post exploring climate change on the North Rim Ranches.
The first of four blog posts exploring climate change on the north rim of the Grand Canyon.
Estonian company Enefit American Oil wants free access across American public land in order to strip mine Utah for oil shale. But water and air quality questions remain.
Estonian energy giant Enefit is pushing for the first commercial oil shale production facility in the U.S. in Utah’s Uinta Basin. The BLM must stop it.
While more than 30 states have adopted the legislation necessary for creating PACE programs, Arizona is not among them.
The Obama administration announced plans to halt all new coal mining leases on federal public lands, the first revision of the federal coal program in nearly three decades.
The most difficult problem we face may be one species of non-native grass that has vexed ranchers, public land lovers and land managers alike for decades.
Beaver have recently re-entered creek systems in Utah, Oregon, and Washington to work their dam magic.
A new film series, Keep it Grand, examines climate change and other issues at the Grand Canyon.
The uranium industry wants to bring in-situ leaching uranium mining to New Mexico, putting precious water resources at risk.
Under the Energy Policy Act of 2005, federal agencies are mandated to develop oil shale and tar sands deposits on U.S. public lands.
They are the West’s most savvy water engineers. Here on the Colorado Plateau, ground zero for climate change, we humans have a lot to learn from these furry creatures.
The grass moved and swayed in the wind, I could almost feel the breeze. A bird would fly to the tree and perch on the creaking branch but in the next slide, it would disappear.