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Jackson as a safe haven in ‘The Last of Us’ is science fiction

Mon, 03/27/2023 - 01:00
Only the extremely wealthy might survive the Apocalypse in today’s western Wyoming town.
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As Utah’s ski tourism grows, locals’ needs are neglected

Thu, 03/23/2023 - 23:00
The world’s longest gondola is proposed as a traffic solution in Little Cottonwood Canyon, but residents oppose this project.
Categories: H. Green News

Cómo usar datos de colaboración colectiva para repensar los desastres naturales

Thu, 03/23/2023 - 01:00
El Monitor Ciudadano de Inundaciones de Tijuana puede servir como modelo para la colección de datos en el oeste estadounidense impactado por las inundaciones.
Categories: H. Green News

As extreme weather outpaces response, could crowdsourced data help?

Thu, 03/23/2023 - 01:00
Tijuana’s Citizens’ Flood Monitor offers a model for data collection in the flood-affected West.
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Utah’s proposed crude oil railway could see an accident every year

Thu, 03/23/2023 - 01:00
Coloradans fight the oil train project, fearing a repeat of East Palestine’s toxic derailment — but in the Colorado River.
Categories: H. Green News

Tribal nations’ lasting victory in the Mojave Desert

Wed, 03/22/2023 - 02:00
Before Avi Kwa Ame became a national monument, there was the fight for Ward Valley.
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Avi Kwa Ame is officially a national monument

Mon, 03/20/2023 - 23:00
Biden’s proclamation protects parts of the Mojave Desert in southern Nevada and includes tribal co-stewardship.
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The natural gas pushback

Mon, 03/20/2023 - 23:00
Local communities want to electrify, but gas interests have other ideas.
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Q&A: The Diné worldviews in the SCOTUS water rights case Arizona v. Navajo Nation

Mon, 03/20/2023 - 10:00
What would it look like to interpret the treaties as tribes understood them?
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EPA and Montana mining company promise action after revelations of cozy relationship

Fri, 03/17/2023 - 13:38
Previous reporting showed how regulators and the mine teamed up to rebut independent researchers.
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‘There is a whole hell of a lot of water up there right now’

Fri, 03/17/2023 - 01:00
A parade of atmospheric rivers dumped historic rain and snow on California and beyond. What happens next?
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The EV mining rush could come to Montana’s mountains

Thu, 03/16/2023 - 01:00
A company announced it found the country’s highest-grade rare earth deposit in Montana.
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The Willow project is part of a larger trend: energy colonialism

Thu, 03/16/2023 - 01:00
Five decades ago, the late Navajo Nation President Peterson Zah described America’s ‘power madness.’
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The Biden administration just approved a huge oil project in Alaska

Tue, 03/14/2023 - 13:30
The Willow project threatens local lifeways and wildlife in Nuiqsut, Alaska.
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Bringing co-stewardship to Wyoming’s Red Desert

Mon, 03/13/2023 - 01:00
A Q&A with the Indigenous Land Alliance of Wyoming’s Yufna Soldier Wolf.
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The fight to keep Ohtani basketball alive

Fri, 03/10/2023 - 01:00
Increasing housing costs and the pandemic threaten an important tradition in the Japanese American community.
Categories: H. Green News

Western legislatures take on foreign land ownership

Wed, 03/08/2023 - 01:00
Six bills in six states propose limits on who can own land, homes and natural resources in the region.
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Construction starts on Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine

Mon, 03/06/2023 - 01:00
The controversial mine, located on the site of an 1865 massacre of Paiute people, is opposed by tribes and environmental groups.
Categories: H. Green News

Can net-zero homes really be affordable?

Fri, 03/03/2023 - 01:00
A Colorado nonprofit is constructing its second affordable housing complex with an eye toward mass production.
Categories: H. Green News

Invisible Denver made indelible in a new documentary

Fri, 03/03/2023 - 01:00
‘The Holly’ connects the dots between the Mile High City’s history of gang violence, real estate development, law enforcement practices and one complicated man.
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