Center News and Notes

How the carbon sink of permafrost in the far North is turning into a carbon emitter instead; two new national monuments honoring Native land; how federal renewable energy incentives could change the Nevada desert; the work of restoring prairie dogs…

Their place in the region’s culture and economy has changed. Horse specialists like Curt Pate ensure some still play their old ranching role.

In the second episode of a series of podcasts on the West, Grey Matter host Michael Krasny interviews Felicity Barringer about the environmental journalism magazine she launched for the Bill Lane Center.

Along the Pacific coast, the U.S.’ fledgling seaweed industry seeks profit in biofuels, greener cattle forage and, just maybe, a place at the American dinner table.

A fixture of the West for millennia, dust storms are becoming more frequent as the byproduct of water diversions and climate change.