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The Good News About Climate Change: There’s Still Hope With warming environments, landscapes are shifting. But life is still abundant. When ecologist Craig Allen looks across the brown, grassy shrublands on the east flank of the Jemez Mountains in northern New Mexico, he feels no satisfaction that he was right. Right that the world was warming. Right that warming would spur such large, severe fires that the forest he studied for decades would disappear. And right that increasing temperatures here—and across the globe—have made it too warm for conifer trees to regain even a toehold acro...

Analysis Analysis Based on factual reporting, although it incorporates the expertise of the author/producer and may offer interpretations and conclusions. Life Is Abundant, Even as the Climate Is Changing The East fork of the Jemez River flows through the Jemez Mountains of Santa Fe National Forest in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Photo by Ron Reznik / VW Pics/ Universal Images Group / Getty Images Climate change is dangerous and disorienting. But building new relationships with the landscapes around us will allow us to survive—and give the other species we still share this planet with the chance...

The forests that won’t grow back Sofia Jeremias When Jonathan Coop was 4 years old, he watched ash rain down from the sky. The year was 1977, and a fire was burning on the Pajarito Plateau, canyon country in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. From his backyard in Los Alamos, Coop saw a plume of smoke rise from the mesa just outside of town. The paradigm of forest ecology had yet to shift when he explored these charred forests in his youth. Fire was destructive, but eventually the trees grew back. The ponderosa pines that dominate the dry landscape of the Southwest, trees t...

Continuing our top stories of 2020 are three stories with a big effect on the environment and wildlife. Several fires west of the Morongo Basin blanketed our area with smoke for days. The Apple Fire started July 31, caused by burning carbon from a diesel truck’s exhaust off of Oak Glen Road in Cherry Valley. The fire burned more than 33,000 acres and threatened evacuations of Morongo Valley and Pioneertown. The Dome Fire in the Mojave Preserve burned 43,000 acres of thick Joshua tree forests; it was started by lightning August 15. Closer to home, lightning sparked a small wildfire in Sunfai...

They're among the oldest living things in the world. The climate crisis is killing them 21 minutes to read By: John Branch California's redwoods, sequoias and Joshua trees define the American West and nature's resilience through the ages. Wildfires this year were their deadliest test. They are what scientists call charismatic megaflora, and there are few trees anywhere more charismatic than the three most famous species in California. People travel from around the world simply to walk among them in wonderment. The giant sequoia. The Joshua tree. The coast redwood. They are t...