As the planet warms, low snow is starving the Colorado River at its headwaters in the Rockies, and higher temperatures are pilfering more of it through evaporation.
The demise of coal-fired power plants in Arizona and Kentucky shows how the president, despite promises to restore jobs, failed to counter the forces decimating the industry.
Bears Ears shrinks, Navajo neighbors cringe, uranium miners get a windfall.
Hundreds of mining claims fall neatly outside the new boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument, and a Navajo town scarred by uranium is bracing for new woes.