Scientists have been shooting particles into clouds since the 1940s, praying it will bring more rain and snow. While researchers agree that “cloud seeding” can work in a laboratory setting, many have doubted how much precipitation it can generate in the real world. But that hasn’t stopped Western states from blasting silver iodide into the...
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House votes to repeal ban on mining near Boundary Waters wilderness in Minnesota
Washington Post reporter Jake Spring writes on the recent decision to allow mining near the Boundary Waters Wilderness area in Minnesota. Read more in the Washington Post here.
Rethinking sustainability: The untold benefits of cattle ranching in the American West
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Why the federal government needs to back away from grizzly bears
Fifty years ago, when the grizzly bear was listed as a threatened species, the federal government intervened to save this iconic American animal. Its recovery is one of the nation’s signature conservation success stories: In 1975, there were at least 700 bears in the northern Rockies. Today, thanks in large part to the Endangered Species Act, there...
Funding for R&D isn’t a gift to academia
As President Donald Trump pledges to win the artificial intelligence race, send Americans to Mars and sustain U.S. military dominance, we would do well to remember a key reason the United States achieved its technological edge in the first place: federal investment in ambitious research and development. The U.S. is racing against its adversaries to...
EPA will grant California the right to ban sales of new gas cars by 2035
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to grant California permission to set stronger climate rules for cars and SUVs — a move that President-elect Donald Trump could attempt to reverse — according to two people briefed on the matter. The EPA intends to issue California a waiver as soon as next week to enforce its rule aimed at banning...
The real reason billion-dollar disasters like Hurricane Helene are growing more common
It rises like a mountain, up and to the right, and it has become one of the most potent illustrations of the perils of man-made global warming. It’s a chart showing the number of billion-dollar weather disasters that have struck the United States since 1980. When the toll is tallied from hurricanes Helene and Milton,...






