River of Lost Souls Excerpt: The Farm

Excerpt from River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster, by Jonathan P … More

Photo gallery: Chaco-region oil and gas development

The San Juan Basin in northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado has been a hydrocarbon extraction hotspot since the 1920s. … More

Read my High Country News story about the fight against drilling in the Greater Chaco Region. Shortly after 10 p.m. … More

In January, I posted here about the dire snowpack situation in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. At the … More

… The capitalists formed the Gold King Mining & Milling Company, and went to work developing the claim, combining it … More

In 2017, New Mexico moved into third place in the nation for oil production, pumping some 16 million barrels from … More

“For the first time in fourteen years, San Juan County celebrated Christmas and New Year’s days without any snow on … More

Beneath the murky green waters on the north end of Lake Powell, entombed within the tons of silt that have … More

In a harried attempt to keep up with the Trump administration’s assault on public lands, I’ve put out a flurry … More

I promised that I was working on a data visualization of natural gas pipeline breaches, and after crunching a bunch … More