Richard Luthy, environmental engineer and water quality expert, has died

Inside Heyday, the Berkeley publishing house where Kaylee Chan is spending her summer, the editorial intern encounters manuscripts in their rawest form. She describes the satisfaction of working towards the common goal of telling important stories.

In a time of growing climate anxiety, a summer internship at the Henry's Fork Foundation has reshaped Audrey Hunter's perspective on what is possible. She writes about newfound hope in the ability of hardworking people to improve the community and ecosystems they care about.

The federal Interior Department outlined up to 3 million acre-feet of water cuts for downstream Colorado River states; community co-management using Native Hawaiian traditions yields healthier fish populations; Utah residents push back against a 500-megawatt data center threatening the Great Salt Lake; implications for changes to the Endangered Species Act; and more environmental news from around the West.