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A new study reveals how climate change and irrigating crops are affecting river flows in the Western U.S.
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The latest edition of the State of the Rockies poll again shows widespread support for public lands, conservation and concern about environmental issues like habitat loss and climate change.
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The Southwest Sustainability Innovation Engine involves several entities, including the Desert Research Institute, the University of Nevada Las Vegas, University of Utah, and Arizona State University.
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The wet season got off to a weak start in the Mountain West, but federal officials say recent winter storms have helped strengthen some snowpacks.
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Water from the Shoshone hydropower plant near Glenwood Springs, Colorado, will be purchased by the Colorado River District. It's part of an expensive effort to keep water flowing to the farms, cities and rivers of Western Colorado, and away from fast-growing cities and towns around Denver.
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Many people are aware that snowpacks - especially in the late spring - can be a key indicator for the sort of wildfire season that could be coming. Less well known is that wildfires themselves can impact snowpacks, as new research is showing. Past burns can speed melting by as much as 57 percent, and lead to snow packs disappearing up to three weeks faster.
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Recent reports from Climate Central show that winter’s coldest and warmest temperatures are on the rise, with some particularly dramatic results seen in cities in our region. But even within that broad trend, extreme cold is still very much a possibility.
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2023 was a strange fire season. It was both the slowest in the US in a quarter century, but also saw one of the deadliest blazes in the country’s history in Hawaii. Unprecedented wildfires in Canada also blanketed much of America in smoke for weeks.
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A new study shows GoFundMe donations to disaster survivors often benefit people with high incomes, not those who need it most.
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In recent years, there have been a number of wildfires that resulted in the loss of numerous structures, and in some cases many lives. A new paper argues that thinking about these incidents as “wildfires that involved houses” has a lot of counterproductive policy implications.