Greg Hanscom
Vegas tops the list of the country’s worst heat islands
On a real scorcher of a day, the mercury downtown can roar 24 degrees above the temps in the surrounding desert. Other cities are feeling the heat, too.
Leaving Las Vegas, a city feeling the slow burn of climate change
I came for the apocalypse. I got art instead.
A Las Vegas community garden beats the odds
A silver lining to the economic downturn that brought Vegas to its knees: People may be setting down roots.
Conservationists need to get out of the woods — and get serious about diversity
A new report finds that environmental groups, foundations, and government agencies have made little progress over the decades to include people of color, poor people, and others outside of the white middle class.
Zappos billionaire wants to turn a dusty Las Vegas wasteland into a thriving urban hub
Tech incubators, coworking spaces, car-share Teslas, a 40-foot, fire-breathing praying mantis. It's all here. Now all Tony Hsieh needs is some people.
Northwest wildfires: We broke the forests, now we need to fix them
Decades of logging, fire suppression, and now climate change have turned our forests into firestorms. But the war on wildfire is one we just can't win.
For $5 a month, you can put food on a stray climate writer’s plate
Beacon lets you sponsor your favorite writer. It's the Adopt-A-Manatee program of the online news ecosystem.
New Jersey reshuffles Sandy relief dollars, admits to numerous mistakes
The announcement follows an investigation by a scrappy local news site that found that the state’s scorecards for distributing relief money were riddled with errors.
When storms hit, scrappy local reporters rush to the rescue
Small news websites are filling in some of the void left by shrinking city newspapers and TV news coverage. They're proving their worth in times of disaster.
