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Commentary:
At first glance, the ground cover in these spots may seem unremarkable, as if someone had just spread a layer of gravel over a dead surface. Look a little closer, though, and surprises emerge.
Commentary:
To put that bird on your table on Thursday (or any other day of the year), a complex, highly specialized, and brutally efficient industry has emerged since World War Two.
Golden Green:
After shutting down the Keystone XL Pipeline, is President Obama finally getting serious about protecting our public lands?
Golden Green:
Our best bet for how to adapt to climate change may be large and vibrant cities.
Golden Green:
To survive on a climate-disrupted Earth we'd better starting thinking about our watersheds--our home ground.
Commentary:
There was one unambiguous piece of good news in the long-awaited draft documents about solar energy development in the Southwest. The rest? Well...
Golden Green:
Small is beautiful. That's Bill McKibben's hopeful prescription for a durable life on a post-climate change Earth.
Commentary:
Blackbrush can live 400 years or more, but will this slow-growth plant survive climate change?
Golden Green:
Rick Perry is a climate-change denier. His wife thinks he's Moses. You decide.
Commentary:
The desert has long been the red-headed stepchild of the environmental movement, the place that few really want to adopt, to protect.
Golden Green:
On San Bruno Mountain, butterflies went head-to-head with bulldozers. Forty years later the battle still rages.
Golden Green:
Can college dormitories--once Animal Houses-like hovels--point the way to a greener future? Pomona College is betting on it.
Wildlife:
Unlike the six or so other rattler species in the California deserts, which possess the standard rattlesnake toxin that causes widespread internal hemorrhaging, the Mojave green adds a neurotoxin to the mix.
Golden Green:
To get a rich feel for the complicated life and legacy of John Muir, visit the new multi-media Muir exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California.
Commentary:
We have nothing to worry about from Brown Recluses in California. At least that's what the debunkers say. But even though those debunkers are correct, the situation is slightly more complicated than the facts might lead you to believe.
Golden Green:
Rob Bishop is trying to ignite a Sagebrush Rebellion against President Obama. The Utah Republican might be the one who gets burned.
Golden Green:
Texas is deep in drought and burning up, but, as happened in 1921, a hoped-for hurricane might proved even more deadly.
Weather:
There are two basic kinds of desert rainstorms and this isn't one of them.
Golden Green:
Having just gutted its clean-air protections, President Obama insists he unwaveringly supports for the EPA's mission. But he has a funny way of showing it, undercutting the public's health.
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