Impacts Photo by Brent Pace on Unsplash Terry Tempest Williams: I am haunted by what I have seen at Great Salt Lake Evaporation from heat and drought accelerated by climate change, combined with overuse of the rivers that feed it, have shrunk the lake’s area by two-thirds.
Causeswww.flickr.com Shawn Regan: 'Use it or lose it' rules favor extraction over land conservation Opinion | Conservation groups want to lease public land to protect it. One problem: Due to century-old rules, it’s often illegal.
Politics www.washingtonpost.com Climate news is relentlessly, objectively grim. Should we ever allow ourselves to feel optimism? Terry Tempest Williams, Naomi Shihab Nye and other writers and activists on where they find hope.
Solutions www.nytimes.com Listening to music in the desert at dawn Terry Tempest Williams, an author and environmental activist, on bird song, Keith Jarrett and slowing down.
Op-ed: “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you” — disabling environments in Cancer Alley and the Ohio River Valley