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A home insurance crisis faces Mountain West states as wildfires blaze the region.
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Each year our society produces an overwhelming amount of plastic waste, contributing to a pollution crisis that not only impacts our environment but our health.
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Though hospitals work to solve people's health problems, the waste they produce can lead to making patients sicker, which is something many health care institutions would like to change.
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Climate change has many effects on our world, from extreme heat to drought to floods, which in turn affect people and their health.
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The authors of a new memo say that states need to take shared water cutbacks to manage the Colorado River going forward.
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In the Arctic, temperatures are rising nearly four times faster than the rest of the world. For Indigenous people in the Arctic, these shifts can be life-changing. How are they adapting to these changes?
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Drought this spring has increased significantly across our region, with some states already hitting the highest levels.
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For example, Utah’s Zion National Park has four days annually on average above 92.4 degrees – its 99th percentile temperature. That could jump to 21 days, or even higher.
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When the average temperature changes one degree, often we don’t notice, but for farmworkers this kind of temperature change can have devastating impacts.
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A new scientific analysis shows spring is getting warmer across the U.S. because of climate change. Some of the fastest-warming cities are in the Mountain West, threatening to shrink water supplies and increase wildfire risk.