Environment

Geothermal greenhouses can cut CO2 emissions and grow tomatoes all year

The Washington Post

At these Colorado greenhouses, naturally hot water from an underground reservoir is being used to maintain optimal growing temperatures even through frigid months. Continue the Full Story

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Under a Texas sun, agrivoltaics offer farmers a new way to make money

The Washington Post
Solar grazing helps farmers feed their flocks while the expanding solar industry provides more clean energy to the grid.
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Seeds From Wild Crop Relatives Could Help Agriculture Weather Climate Change

Civil Eats
In the rugged Tumacácori mountain region 45 minutes south of Tucson, the Wild Chile Botanical Area (WCBA) was established in 1999 to protect and study the chiltepin pepper—the single wild
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Nine practices from Native American culture that could help the environment

The Washington Post
Since the first Earth Day in 1970, the world has experienced profound ecological changes. Wildlife populations have , the result of habitat loss caused by rapid industrialization and changing temperatures.
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‘It healed me’: the Indigenous forager reconnecting Native Americans with their roots

The Guardian
On a warm day in April, Twila Cassadore piloted her pickup truck toward the mountains on the San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona to scout for wild edible plants. A
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Creating The ‘Carbon Capture State’ (Part 1)

The Wyoming Truth
In Wyoming’s coal country, an emerging climate technology takes holdFeb. 15, 2023By Samuel GilbertSpecial to the Wyoming TruthIn 2021, a record high 36 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide were
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Part 2: A Struggling Coal Town Looks to a Nuclear Future

The Wyoming Truth
Bill Gates-backed TerraPower to build state’s first nuclear power plant Oct. 2, 2022By Samuel GilbertSpecial to the Wyoming TruthOn Saturday, the Wyoming Truth published the part one of a story
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Part 1: A Struggling Coal Town Looks to a Nuclear Future

The Wyoming Truth
Bill Gates-backed TerraPower to build state’s first nuclear power plant Oct. 1, 2022By Samuel GilbertSpecial to the Wyoming TruthKEMMERER, Wyo.—In late 2019, Teri Picerno heard that the Naughton coal power
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Invisible and toxic in New Mexico

Source NM

In her 30 years working as a health care professional in the Navajo Nation, Adella Begaye witnessed the health impacts of extractive industries on Indigenous communities in the Southwest.

“We

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To understand the orphan well problem in NM, someone’s going to have to count them

Source NM

The 50-square-mile stretch of public land known as Glade Run is described on the Bureau of Land Management’s website as a “great spot for the weekend warrior.”

Glade Run is

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