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This winter’s snow drought may leave a mark that lasts for centuries. Justin DeRose, a dendrochronologist and assistant professor of silviculture and applied forest ecology at Utah State University, says trees across the West are already recording the story of climate in their rings — wet years, dry years, fire years, and sometimes years so harsh they leave almost no growth at all. And as drought years begin stacking up closer and closer together, those forests may be telling us something important about how fast the West is changing.

We’ve long found different ways to explain that the world is made up of haves and have-nots. We live in the developed world or the developing world. There are those who are advantaged and those who are disadvantaged. And then, of course, there’s the one percent and everyone else. But under global warming, the climate journalist Jeff Goodell thinks, there may be a new way of describing this dichotomy: The cooled and the cooked.

For a very long time it was thought that some alcohol, in moderation, could be healthy for us. The latest research suggests that’s simply not true. This certainly doesn’t mean people shouldn’t be allowed to drink — but we should at least know why we drink as much as we do. And that’s a question that Dr. Charles Knowles has tried to resolve in his new book.

A new lawsuit alleges the Bureau of Land Management failed to conduct required environmental review before approving a mining project on Sevier Lake.

Alexis Ault was chosen for a prestigious National Academy of Sciences fellowship recognizing a select cohort of young scientists who present at the Japanese-American-German Frontiers of Science Symposium.

Our guest for this episode is science journalist Kristy Hamilton. In her book Nature’s Wild Ideas, she goes behind the scenes of some of our most unexpected innovations.

A team of researchers noticed that as you go south along the Rockies, the number of black coated wolves will increase. But what does this have to do with the deadly canine distemper disease?

We’re doing a deep dive on dogs in art, and what that relationship means about dogs and humans alike.

For veterans post traumatic stress is real, but so is post traumatic growth.

We're talking to the researchers who tracked European eels to solve 100 year mystery.