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Large solar project on Navajo Nations leaves residents skeptical
2+ hour, 16+ min ago (934+ words) “That made this whole project, as it kept progressing, more and more like we were being sold down the river. Or being taken advantage of, and not given any real voice,” said Tyrel Jones, the chapter’s Community Land Use Planning…...
The militarization of the Continental Divide Trail’s southern terminus
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (795+ words) Before the Trump administration decided the country urgently needed to erect a hulking steel wall in southern New Mexico’s Bootheel, only a three-strand barbed wire fence separated the United States from Mexico in this arid stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert....
The ramifications of record-shattering heat on the West’s ecosystems
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (758+ words) In March, a month traditionally known for heavy mountain snows and dreary lower-elevation weather, a heat wave settled across the West, shattering temperature records from Tucson, Arizona, to Casper, Wyoming. The heat wave’s intensity and early arrival shocked many climate…...
Border wall blasting hits a treasured New Mexico mountain
5+ mon, 5+ day ago (1721+ words) This story was originally published with Puente News Collaborative in partnership with Inside Climate News and is republished her by permissions. Puente News Collaborative is a bilingual nonprofit newsroom and funder dedicated to high-quality, fact-based news and information from the…...
Why intentional fires can still be safe during this dry spring
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (272+ words) Late winter and early spring in the West can be snowy and rainy one minute, sunny and 70 degrees the next. Seasonal shifts are everywhere: bright green new growth, the first wildflowers, birdsong and … periodic plumes of smoke? “Prescribed fires are…...
How geology not only shapes the world, it shapes us
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (631+ words) This piece is part of a special project on deep time examining what the Western U.S. was like thousands, millions and even billions of years ago, and how that history is still visible and consequential today. Read more stories from the…...
‘We’re basically slitting our own throat’: Montana rolls back water-quality standards
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (489+ words) Montana was once a leader when it came to regulating pollution in its waterways. In 2014, it became the first state in the country to impose numeric water-quality standards on dissolved nitrogen and phosphorus, two major sources of nutrient pollution, in…...
Resistance to data centers rises on the border
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (954+ words) This story is a collaboration with Puente News Collaborative, a bilingual nonprofit newsroom, convener and funder dedicated to high-quality, fact-based news and information from the U.S.-Mexico border. Sunland Park, New Mexico, is not a notably online community. Retirees have settled…...
Why Colorado River negotiations are so difficult
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (972+ words) On the day of a Nov. 11 federal deadline for states to submit a water management plan for the Colorado River, negotiations remain deadlocked. Without agreement, it is unclear how a water supply that millions depend on will be managed after…...
Phoenix subdivision builds move ahead, despite water concerns
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (91+ words) A nonprofit independent magazine of unblinking journalism that shines a light on all of the complexities of the West. High Country News’ twice weekly email newsletter includes our latest on-the-ground reporting from across the West. Developers and Republican legislators are…...