Celebrating Climate Reporting in 2025

The effects of climate change affect everyone. It’s why we believe in sharing and publishing unbiased, fact-based environmental information that is freely available to everyone in our community. We report on the science behind the issues, and focus on the people and policies at work to address the climate challenges in front of us.

Let’s show you what your dollars help support, by highlighting some of our favorite civics reporting in 2025.

The Landslide Brought Me Down

Wildfires are destructive forces, torching brush and forests, displacing residents and leaving scars on the landscape. But, long after they are put out, wildfires can affect the landscape in other ways.

Ally contributor Richard Bednarski looked into how areas with wildfires face new risks of landslides, as less vegetation means more water in the soil. That leads to erosion turning into landslides that affect travel corridors throughout the region. Climate change has a big role to play, as storms are getting wetter, wildfires are getting more intense, and the region as a whole is getting drier.

Cost of Doing Business

This year, the city of Reno approved a new data center, after the Reno Planning Commission declined the same proposal, citing insufficient plans for how to address the intense energy and water needs of such a project. So, what are the environmental costs behind this kind of development and what economic potential does it offer?

Ally contributor Richard Bednarski took a look at the proposal and the science behind data centers to give an unbiased assessment of the tradeoffs between economic development and environmental costs.

Federal Employee Purge in Nevada and Beyond

Our federal National Parks have long been touted as our nation’s “best idea,” but that idea was under attack in the early days of the second Trump administration.

In this piece from our reporter and Managing Editor Hannah Truby, we look at how a purge of federal employees across the National Park Service is affecting Nevada’s lone national park and beyond.

Federal Decisions, Local Impacts

Early this year, President Trump ordered large amounts of water to be released from California reservoirs to help battle the wildfires raging at the time in Los Angeles. However, that water never actually made it to L.A. and local officials weren’t aware of that decision until it was too late.

In this piece from Ally contributor Brooke Hess-Homeier, we break down the timeline of actions that happened and how the decision ultimately hurt water needed for California farmers during hot summer months.

Focus on Solutions

For years, Reno has been the fastest-warming city in the U.S., with Las Vegas as the second fastest-warming city. While much reporting on this has focused on extreme heat and the affects of it, this piece looks at what local officials are doing to solve the issue.

In this story, Ally contributor Vanesa de la Cruz Pavas took us into the Northern Nevada Heat Summit to learn from experts and scientists about the situation on the ground and how we can work together to solve the problem.

Our climate reporting serves the region with reliable, fact-based information. Your support makes it all possible.

Now through December 31, our partners at NewsMatch will double your donation up to $1,000. And new recurring monthly donations will get a little extra love, matching 12x up to the same amount.

That means that your donations right now will get us even closer to our $25,000 campaign goal.