All of the reasons #Colorado’s horrible #snowpack is so problematic -- Shannon Mullane (Fresh Water News) coyotegulch.blog/2026/02/13/a...

California just granted state Endangered Species Act protections to six mountain lion populations: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @lilaseidman.bsky.social

Hidden in Trump's give-aways to cattle ranchers, the USDA will "Review & limit agency practices regarding entering private property without a warrant or proper notice." Finally, this administration cares about the abuse of warrantless searches ... for certain people. www.usda.gov/sites/defaul...

From me: ‘Plan to keep Navajo coal mine open for 110 years runs into opposition’

Scientists say they haven't since this little snow cover or snow depth in the Western U.S. in decades. Since December 1, there have been 8,500 daily high temperature records broken or tied in the West. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Wonder how they'll deal with Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. Denali National Park. Haleakala. Will "Colorado" become "Reddish?" Will "Mesa Verde" become "Green Table?" Or just removed from DOI's website? federalnewsnetwork.com/technology-m...

Here's mine from the Pawnee Grassland last year. (My guess in the alt text.) #birds

as always the New York Times frames this catastrophe in a way that downplays the fact this is an extremely unpopular decision being driven entirely by corporate corruption that will avoidably kill untold millions of people

January brought more warm conditions across Colorado, and the mountain snowpack is at its lowest levels in decades. Water Year 2026 is off to the warmest start of any water year on record for Colorado, by a large margin. To read more cheery climate details, here's the link to our January summary!

Big Ag is continuing to get away with polluting Coloradans' water supplies. That needs to change.

"Images obtained by CBS News appear to show the zip ties and bruised wrists of Anabel Romero's 14-year-old daughter SueHey, a U.S. citizen who was tending to her 6- and 8-year-old siblings when the agents descended on the crowd in military-style gear and herded them into a confined area."

Just in case it wasn't obvious that Trump's energy policies make no sense, except for his cronies: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Aridification. Drought. Climate warming. It's happening here, now.

A great deep dive on how the fossil fuel shills did it. We also need more stories about the stakes. Like the trillions in costs & hundreds of thousands of deaths these ghouls and their policies will cause. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

“Snowpack conditions are very poor across almost the entire area due to a combination of low winter precipitation amounts and the much warmer than normal temperatures,” Brenda Alcorn, a forecaster at the center said on Friday. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene... It's 68 F in Denver today.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

“The Florida Panhandle has seen more snowfall than Salt Lake City this year,” said Jon Meyer, assistant state climatologist at the Utah Climate Center.

The Economist reports on climate data being deleted, discontinued, defunded: www.economist.com/science-and-...

A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.

The Trump administration has OKed bulldozing a road through crucial wildlife and migratory bird habitat in an Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. Help @biologicaldiversity.org fight this destructive plan. #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B_Z...

Forest Service OKs plan to chainsaw 4,000+ acres of old growth in Alaska's Tongass National Forest. Destroying biodiversity & a key carbon sink. There's more of this coming with Trump's proposal to end protections for roadless areas. #forests #Climate alaskapublic.org/news/environ...

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

Worth a read.

I was told today my Washington Post job is being eliminated It's just a job, but it's one that I was proud to do for 8+ yrs alongside the best in the business I'm here for opportunities to tell stories about the natural world and how we impact it [email protected]

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Congress is trying to wipe out one of Utah's National Monuments with a procedural trick. This would clear the way to hand much of Grand Staircase-Escalante over to extractive industry. Billionaires get richer while we get locked out of our public lands. news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...

President Trump is back to work building his border wall — and new sections could be a death sentence for are bighorn sheep along the California-Mexico border, cutting off from their water sources in the desert. Haunting story by @lilaseidman.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...

The Trump administration plans to open an Alabama national forest that's home to the threatened red-cockaded woodpecker to oil and gas development. Scraping habitat for roads & drilling pads, along with noise, spills, & air pollution, could follow. #birds biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

January 2026 temperature rankings compared to all Januarys since 1895.

Four former Forest Service chiefs, including one of Trump's, support the Roadless Rule, which Trump has proposed to eliminate. We should protect old growth forest in the back country.

The Lower 48 average was 0.8F above the 1991-2020 normal.

Brought to you by climate warming.

It has come to this being something we all need to know.

“Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned.” Judge Biery re asylum seeker Adrian Conejo Arias and his five-year-old son

for us Americans, that's 98°F at night and 120°F in the day

It’s written w fashion-set breeziness, but this is actually a sharp article on the technical, cultural, and governance strategies being used to sustain Olympic skiing despite climate change having already ended Alpine snow—complete with an implicit nod to Abundance 👇 airmail.news/issues/2026-...

An Oregon-based federal court ruled that the U.S. Forest Service unlawfully used a logging rule known as CE-6 to exempt large timber harvests from environmental review, barring its use in future national forest projects. Article Source: insideclimatenews.org/news/2101202... Photo Source: Canva

Republicans have advanced a bill to pack Utah’s Supreme Court in response to its rulings against their congressional gerrymander. It fits into a wider pattern of Republican court-packing: Arizona’s and Georgia’s GOP did it in 2016, and North Carolina’s GOP tried it in 2018 but was blocked by voters

Letter: Trump is coming for Grand Staircase-Escalante, with the full support of Utah’s congressional delegation. We must bombard their offices with calls to stop this.

ICE for thee, but not for me.

“.. This list should give pause to anyone — no matter his or her political beliefs — who cares about the rule of law,” Judge Schiltz added. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

I’m not sure how much notice this has received but the Assembly of First Nations in Canada has issued a travel advisory for the United States after reports that Indigenous people are being increasingly questioned and detained by ICE. www.instagram.com/p/DT-_SacDEH...

Record warmth across much of the West this winter has left the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains with very little snow. “That is the classic global warming mountain snowpack signature.” @weatherwest.bsky.social Graphics by @sean-greene.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/... @latimes.com

Ignorance Is Strength, exhibit #423

Ignorance Is Strength, exhibit #422.

Six tribes have issued a statement telling the feds to stop detaining their members. The gov’t “carries a duty to Tribal Nations. This duty includes safeguarding constitutional rights, ensuring due process, and preventing unlawful detention or harm to tribal citizens, regardless of where they live”

Sickening stuff. www.denverpost.com/2026/01/23/c...

Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)