As a changing climate bakes and dries up the Colorado River, the seven basin states can’t agree on how to share the declining water resources.
American West
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‘Cadillac Desert’ Reconsidered
Marc Reisner’s 1986 book demonstrates how a hypertrophic judiciary combines with America’s deadlocked legislature to make vast swaths of Western water policy dependent on 19th-century legal norms.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Water Is Not the Problem With Artificial Intelligence
Data centers are nothing compared to cattle farming.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Preserving Public Lands
Deb Haaland has been a remarkable secretary of the interior. But the future is about funding in Congress.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
California Fights Fire With Fire
The state has finally embraced indigenous land management techniques to help alleviate its wildfire crisis.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Water Democracies
Four-hundred-year-old acequia systems of the Southwest are changing how communities cope with water scarcity.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
When One Story Isn’t Enough
Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is a brilliant chronicle of the destruction of the Osage people. But it doesn’t go far enough to explain how systemic it all was.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Varieties of Extermination
The slaughter of bison, Israelis, Gazans, and Native Americans
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Sempra Pushes to Expand Pacific Pipelines for Gas Export
The infrastructure arm of the California and Texas utility owner has lobbied for gas exports that could raise prices for its own customers.
Posted inPolitics
Can the Environment Help Michael Bennet in Colorado?
Facing a tough re-election campaign, the senior Democratic senator looks for a boost from a new national monument.
