Update, 2/2022: The U.S. Bureau of Land Management approved this mine in northern Nevada, despite efforts to protect the sacred site, read more here at Mongabay. Global emissions of carbon…
Scientists have observed declining snowpack accumulation across the globe, with snowfields that were once considered permanent shrinking from the Rocky Mountains to the Himalayas. Snowpack in California’s Sierra Nevadas was…
On April 1, California Governor Jerry Brown stood in a Sierra Nevada meadow atop parched, brown grass — at an elevation of 6,800 feet, where there would normally be five…