U.S. West

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Homes burn as a wind-fueled wildfire rips through a development near Rock Creek Village near Broomfield, Colo., Dec. 30, 2021. Colorado’s rare winter wildfire destroyed nearly 1,000 homes and tens of thousands of people were evacuated. in wind-fueled wildfires outside Denver, officials said Thursday evening. (AP Photo / David Zalubowski)

Climate

Resourceful AP team dominates all-formats coverage of Colorado inferno

JAN. 7, 2022

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Misty Buckley carries dirty water from her animals’ pens to water plants in her front yard, in Klamath Falls, Ore., July 24, 2021. The family’s house well ran dry in May following historic drought in southern Oregon. Dozens of domestic wells have gone dry in the area near the Oregon-California border where the effects of drought have taken a particularly dramatic toll. (AP Photo / Nathan Howard)

Climate

As wells dry up in parched US West, AP reports on residents now without running water

AUG. 6, 2021

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Pink water washes over a salt crust along the receding edge of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, May 4, 2021. The lake has been shrinking for years, and its levels are expected to hit a 170-year low in 2021 as drought grips the American West. (AP Photo / Rick Bowmer)

Climate

AP takes immersive look as drought puts ‘flatlining’ Great Salt Lake at historic risk

JULY 16, 2021

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California

AP reveals a water crisis at the boiling point for Native Americans, farmers in Western river basin

JULY 9, 2021

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Air pollution

AP: Smoke from US wildfires boosting health risk for millions

JULY 5, 2019

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