ICN West Coast

Water Issues Confronting Hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail Trickle Down Into the Rest of California

From the sky-scraping snow drifts that can close the trail to the desert tracks without a drop for miles, water challenges high country hikers face in California reflect the bigger hydrology issues the state is dealing with.

By Bing Lin

A Path Through Scorched Earth Teaches How a Fire Deficit Helped Fuel California’s Conflagrations

By Bing Lin

First Snow, then Heat Interrupt a Hike From Mexico to Canada, as Climate Complicates an Iconic Adventure

By Bing Lin

San Francisco Ferry Fleet Gets New Emissions-Free Addition

By Ruchi Shahagadkar

California Still Has No Plan to Phase Out Oil Refineries

By Liza Gross

Feds Contradict Scientific Research, Say the Salton Sea’s Exposed Lakebed Is Not a Significant Source of Pollution for Disadvantaged Communities

By Sarah Hopkins

Fire Once Helped Sequoias Reproduce. Now, it’s Killing the Groves

By Caroline Marshall Reinhart

‘Not Caused by an Act of God’: In a Rare Court Action, an Oregon County Seeks to Hold Fossil Fuel Companies Accountable for Extreme Temperatures

By Victoria St. Martin

Q&A: How a Land Purchase Inspired by an Unfulfilled Promise Aims to Make People of Color Feel Welcome in the Wilderness

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Can the Greater Sage-Grouse Be Kept Off the Endangered Species List?

By Wyatt Myskow

Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands Is the Biggest Conservation Opportunity Left in the West. If Congress Won’t Protect it, Should Biden Step in?

By Wyatt Myskow

A Washington State Coal Plant Has to Close Next Year. Can Pennsylvania Communities Learn From Centralia’s Transition?

By Rachel McDevitt, StateImpact Pennsylvania

Potential Changes to Alternate-Fuel Standards Could Hike Gas Prices in California. Critics See a ‘Regressive Tax’ on Low-Income Communities

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

California’s Latino Communities Most at Risk From Exposure to Brain-Damaging Weed Killer

By Liza Gross

The Oregon Coast Inspired the Novel ‘Dune.’ Does the Sci-Fi Tale Foreshadow Its Fate?

By Kiley Price

Climate Takes a Back Seat in High-Profile California Primary Campaigns. One Candidate Aims to Change That

By Liza Gross

A medida que aumentan las temperaturas, más trabajadores mueren en el campo

By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous

California’s Oil Country Hopes Carbon Management Will Provide Jobs. It May Be Disappointed

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Joshua Yeager

Another Climate Impact Hits the Public’s Radar: A Wetter World Is Mudslide City

By Audrey Gray