Jonathan Thompson
About Jonathan Thompson
Jonathan Thompson is a contributing editor at High Country News. He is the author of the new book, River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster.
Should we worry about eight billion people?
Breaking down the world population’s role in the environmental impact equation.
The digital world’s real-world hit on the environment
From data centre warehouses to cryptocurrency, technology is another energy hog.
Nuclear power is clean – except for all the waste
Compare the annual waste produced by a coal-burning power plant and a nuclear generating station.
Is nuclear energy the key to saving the planet?
“For me, being an environmentalist is being pro-nuclear," says one engineer. But the simple argument that nuclear plants should stay because they are cleaner is increasingly complicated these days.
Indigenous activists try to quell a rising tide of oil and gas exploration in Chaco Canyon
On the warm, pre-monsoon night of July 11, 2016, fire broke out among a cluster of six newly drilled oil wells near the small Navajo community of Nageezi, New Mexico. The residents of nearby homes fled to the highway, where they watched huge curdling balls of orange flame boil up into the vast bowl of dark sky above their corner of the Greater Chaco Region.