What are we doing here? Drought, dread and family in the American Southwest | High Country News | August 2018
Tree rings reveal increased fire risk for Southwestern US | Nature | February 2018
Unique oil spill in East China Sea frustrates scientists | Nature | January 2018
Archaeologists uneasy as Trump shrinks Bears Ears National Monument | Nature | December 2017
Politics, land ownership and imperiled plants collide in New Mexico | High Country News | November 2017
Endangered U.S. wolf denied new habitat, as critics charge that politics trumped science | Science Magazine | September 2017
First Nations Women are Suffering from an Epidemic of Violence. Why? | Sierra Magazine | August / September 2017
Trump’s Border Wall Threatens Plants and Animals on the U.S.-Mexico Border | Scientific American | May 2017
Scott Pruitt isn’t the first administrator who is hostile to the EPA’s mission | High Country News | March 2017
The contradictions at the heart of the fight over methane rules | High Country News | February 2017
Does the constitution hold the key to climate action? | High Country News | February 2017
Public Lands and Environment under Interior Nominee Ryan Zinke: A Mixed Bag | Scientific American | January 2017
Trump’s First 100 Days: Environmental Policy and Public Lands | Scientific American | December 2016
Can Trump undo Obama’s policies? | High Country News | December 2016
The West is Burning, and Climate Change is Partly to Blame | FiveThirtyEight | October 2016
The Pope’s Climate Change Blind Spot: Women’s Rights | Sierra Magazine | September 2016
The Fish and Wildlife Service’s endangered species triage | High Country News | September 2016
Line of Descent: Management missteps and turf wars have left endangered Mexican wolves dangerously inbred — and desperate for new blood | High Country News | August 2016
New measures could reduce Glen Canyon Dam’s impact on the Grand Canyon — a bit | High Country News | July 2016
Breeding the Ubercoral | Hakai Magazine | June 2016
Does conserving species actually curb development? | High Country News | March 2016
At Valles Caldera, a new national park unit takes shape | High Country News | March 2016
In Washington, activists and the ‘necessity defense’ on trial | High Country News | February 2016
Who really killed Keystone? | High Country News | December 2015
Amid California’s historic drought, ancient sequoias show signs of stress | The Guardian | September 2015
Why the Clean Power Plan isn’t a death knell for coal | High Country News | August 2015
Bumblebees being crushed by climate change | Science Magazine | July 2015
Deaths renew calls for parks to rescind BASE jumping bans | High Country News | July 2015
Genetic research lays foundation for bold new conservation strategies | High Country News | June 2015
The case of the snotty streams | High Country News | March 2015
Don’t Blame the Beetles | Science | October 2014
The desert-friendly cow | High Country News | November 2014
The Tree Coroners | High Country News | December 2013
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