For decades, Salt Lake City’s Poplar Grove neighborhood has sat adjacent to Interstate 80 without a sound barrier, subjecting the area’s residents to unwanted noise and air pollution. When Michael Clara coordinated a meeting with the Utah Department of Transportation t...

A line forms for one of three different ferris-wheels at the Riverside County Fair and Date Festival.

While date palms aren't native to Riverside, they became a major crop after farmers transplanted trees from Algeria, becoming so popular that date farmers represented R...

The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates we have about 550 gigatonnes of carbon emissions left before we cause irreparable damage to the climate (about 10 to 15 years at a rate of 42 gigatonnes per year).

Global warming is such an enormous, existential...

Which would you rather read? A story about the latest donation figures to the Peace Corps? Or a story about a volunteer’s experience learning from Indigenous tribes in Costa Rica? If you clicked on the second link, you’ve just been pulled into an organization through t...

Full disclosure: I’ve been a Castlevania fan since 1993 when I was Simon Belmont killing fish-men in the first Castlevania for the Nintendo.

That note aside, the Castlevania animated series debuted last year to generally high praise, defying a decades long trend of vide...

Summer in Salt Lake City provides plenty of opportunities for adventure and photography. Time is split between working with a number of wonderful clients and exploring and adventuring in Utah.

For clients, my work has been split between editorial images and business por...

Erin Mendenhall understands the value of affordable housing. It’s possible she wouldn’t be here without it. A stable and affordable home gave her grandparents the foundation they needed to raise a family on the middle class wages of a painter and a store manager.

"My fa...

Wildfires impact far more than just the scenery. They are a major contributor to many health and environmental hazards.

As of August, wildfires have burned more than 1.5 million acres in 13 states, with 7 in Utah alone. While wildfires are a part of nature, they are als...

Sometimes Sophorn Sim’s day involves a presentation in someone’s living room on habits such as opening windows and doors for ventilation. Other times she’s organizing eld trips to stormwater retention ponds to teach other immigrants about pollution.

Sim leads the Enviro...

Real estate agents, circus performers, teachers, and software engineers — while the groups might not have much in common in their day-to-day lives, every other Wednesday they gather at Gasworks Park for a pyrotechnic celebration of light, music and dance.

Fire danc...