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Today we’ll check in with reporter Alex Hager. He reports for the Colorado River Reporting Project and you hear his stories regularly on UPR.

“Today we live in a fire age in which ancient prophecies of worlds destroyed and renewed by fire have become contemporary realities, even for people living in modern cities," Stephen Pyne says.

On this episode we talk with the editors of Big Box USA, which presents a new look at how the big box retail store has dramatically reshaped the U.S. economy and its ecosystems in the last half century.

Tom Romano taught writing and English methods in USU’s English Department from 1991-1995 and consulted with the statewide Utah Writing Project for many years. A 17-year career of high school teaching led to his first book, Clearing the Way: Working with Teenage Writers (1987).

Gardening expert and UPR friend Dan Drost joined us today to answer your questions. Whether you’ve got a large backyard garden, participate in the community garden or have a small box near your window, Dan can help.

Climate change has become an unavoidable fact and an ongoing catastrophe. The science was clear decades ago. How did so many Americans come to doubt evidence so widely accepted and compelling?

Mountain lions are considered the apex predator of the Mountain West. Heavy hunting has reduced their number, but sightings are on the rise in Utah. Today we revisit our discussion about mysterious and misunderstood lives of cougars.

In the tradition of books like "Breath" and "Wintering," "Sleepless" combines science, historical research, and personal experience to explore the complicated relationship women have with darkness.

In the tradition of books like "Breath" and "Wintering," "Sleepless" combines science, historical research, and personal experience to explore the complicated relationship women have with darkness.

James Davison Hunter, who introduced the concept of “culture wars” 30 years ago, tells us in this new book that historic sources of national solidarity have now largely dissolved.