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A wild jaguar walking on a river bank (Getty Images/Jami Tarris)

Rare wild jaguar found in Arizona

Matthew Rozsa
Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch dam on the Colorado River in northern Arizona in the United States, near the town of Page. (Getty Images/Spondylolithesis)

Can the Hoover Dam survive the drought?

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Volunteers hand out food during an aid distribution event. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Welfare reform's cruel Southwest failure

Eli Hager - ProPublica
FILE - In this July 28, 2014, file photo, lightning strikes over Lake Mead near Hoover Dam that impounds Colorado River water at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Arizona. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, April 16, 2019, signed a plan to cut back on the use of water from the Colorado River, which serves 40 million people in the U.S. West. (AP Photo/John Locher, File) (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

States buy time with Colorado River plan

Brad Udall, Douglas Kenney, John Fleck - The Conversation
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Southern discomfort: The fight for solar

Elise Hansen, Katarina Zimmer - Grist
The damaged engine of the Southwest Airlines plane that Tammie Jo Shults landed in an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport. (NTSB via AP)

Southwest pilot had "nerves of steel"

Rachel Leah
In this May 24, 2015, photo a vehicle drives on a pier to be loaded onto an Alaska state ferry while people fish underneath the pier in Homer, Alaska. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Record highs

Andrea Thompson - Climate Central
(iStockphoto/Davel5957)

West coast heat wave

Andrea Thompson - Climate Central

Fires in the plains

John Upton - Climate Central
FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2011, file photo, a female Mexican gray wolf at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in central N.M. Republicans in Congress are readying plans to roll back the reach of the Endangered Species Act after decades of complaints that it hinders drilling, logging and other activities on public lands. Over the past eight years, GOP lawmakers sponsored dozens of measures aimed at curtailing the landmark law or putting species such as gray wolves and sage grouse out of its reach. Almost all were blocked by Democrats and the White House or lawsuits from environmentalists. () (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

Mexican gray wolf population

Susan Montoya Bryan

The Southwest is burning

Reynard Loki - Alternet
Khairuldeen Makhzoomi works in his office in Berkeley, Calif., Monday, April 18, 2016. A University of California, Berkeley student who came to the U.S. as an Iraqi refugee says he was unfairly removed from a flight at Los Angeles International Airport earlier this month because a fellow passenger was alarmed by an innocent conversation he was having in Arabic. Southwest Airlines said in a statement Sunday that the passenger, Makhzoomi, was taken off the April 9, 2016, flight from Los Angeles to Oakland, California, for questioning and the plane took off while that was happening. (AP Photo/Haven Daley) (AP)

Katie Levingston
(NASA Goddard/YouTube)

US faces historic megadrought

Joanna Rothkopf
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-74538p1.html'>Alexander Raths</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Valley fever is spreading

Joanna Rothkopf
Southwest plane surrounded by first responders at Laguardia Airport (Matt Sussberg)

Crash landing at LaGuardia

Alex Halperin
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