Zinke hints at more boots on the ground and fewer lawyers in Department shakeup.
Maya L. Kapoor
Maya L. Kapoor is an award-winning freelance journalist who writes about climate change, biodiversity and environmental justice. Previously she was an associate editor at High Country News.
Posted inJune 12, 2017: The Big Swing
Latest: Washington to restore salmon habitat blocked by culverts
The state has 15 years to comply.
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Why the Endangered Species Act can’t save whitebark pines
Politics, money and climate change threaten one of the West’s iconic trees.
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Climate change is unraveling natural cycles in the West
Spring’s early arrival creates more mismatches in ecosystems.
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Republicans set their sights on the EPA’s science
The federal agency that regulates our environment may soon have less data to work with.
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Nogales has a sewage problem
In the borderlands, members of Congress work to resolve wastewater woes.
Posted inMay 1, 2017: Change Comes to Short Creek
The biocrust conundrum
By destroying biocrust communities, climate change may be making arid lands more reflective — which could slow down warming.
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A way of unforgetting
Author Lauret Savoy on tracing personal and national history through landscapes.
Posted inMarch 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
Raptors in flight
Enduring relationships begin with encounters.
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People cause the majority of wildfires
New research finds illegal campfires, cigarette butts and other accidental ignitions have nearly tripled the wildfire season.
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Ask a Scientist: Why NOAA matters for the West
CIRES head Waleed Abdalati answers our questions.
Posted inMarch 20, 2017: The Tree Ring
Where the wild things swim — again
In a borderlands river, improved water quality allows an endangered fish to return.
Posted inFebruary 6, 2017: River of Healing
Latest: Second male jaguar spotted in Arizona
New draft recovery plan for the Southwest released.
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Meet Trump’s Interior, EPA and Energy picks
What we know from the confirmation hearings for Ryan Zinke, Scott Pruitt and Rick Perry.
Posted inJanuary 23, 2017: For Which it Stands
Latest: Another attempt to open Arctic drilling
The legislation is Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s ninth such try.
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Tools for the wannabe Western weather prognosticator
The five best resources for understanding the region’s wacky weather.
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With more monuments, Republican backlash mounts
A proposed bill moves to weaken executive power of the Antiquities Act.
Posted inSeptember 19, 2016: Frontera Incognita
How humans nurtured the hated mosquito
Alexander von Humboldt and the spread of Aedes aegypti.