Host @GabriellaHoffman returns to the Wild West to investigate 20+ proposed wind projects in southern Wyoming. Tune in to learn about the environmental trade offs to onshore wind and how to preserve the Western way...
A cool, wet winter has created an increased wildfire threat by producing a bountiful volume of flammable grasses.
Wildfire acreage has been low even though the summer has been warm and dry for most of the region.
Just about every indicator of drought is flashing red across the western U.S. after a dry winter and warm early spring. The snowpack is at less than half of normal in much of the region. Reservoirs are being drawn down, river...
A new study published in Science by the Scripp's Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego found that the earth's crust is slowly rising in the West "like an uncoiled spring" due extreme drought...
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