Environment

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

Solar grazing helps farmers feed their flocks while the expanding solar industry provides more clean energy to the grid.

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.

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 relative of hundreds of sweet and hot varieties including jalapeño,...

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.

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 plant outside of Kemmerer would close in the coming years.

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 released into the atmosphere, according to the International Energy Agency.

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 about Kemmerer, future home of TerraPower’s Natrium reactor.

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.

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 punctured by 600 oil and gas wells, connected by hundreds...

On a windy winter day in Acoma Pueblo in north-western New Mexico, Aaron Lowden knelt beside a field near the San Jose River, the tribe’s primary irrigator for centuries.

TUCSON — Indigenous peoples have known for millennia to plant under the shade of the mesquite and paloverde trees that mark the Sonoran Desert here, shielding their crops from the intense sun and reducing the amount of water needed.

SAN PEDRO — For the past 34 years, Roxanne Swentzell has worked to save the seeds of her ancestors. “I remember getting a small pouch of a variety of Pueblo white corn that had been passed down from my great-great-grandmother,”...

New York City, US - On the evening of October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy reached the inlet between Long Island and New Jersey and funnelled the Atlantic storm surge into the heart of New York City, inundating lower Manhattan with...