By Aaron Bolton | MTPR

Montana broke multiple daily temperature records this summer, according to National Weather Service Meteorologist Marty Whitmore. He says many parts of the state are seeing more days over 90 and 100 degrees Fahrenheit every year due to climate change…. Montanans, especially those in rural areas, may not be prepared for these temperatures because most have historically lived without air conditioning.

Climate change is such a huge and overwhelming problem that it's easy to feel like you can't do anything about it. But you don't have to solve all the problems and save the entire world--you can't. What you can do is work for a better future within the reach of your arm.

My perch on the bridge is fifty feet above the tracks where trains throttle up, censing diesel into stands of smog. They stretch the length of the valley from east to west sawing between empty and filled depending upon which direction they’re traveling. The tracks are never bare.

In looking at possible places to visit, we came across the small Greek island of Tilos, just north of Rhodes in the Dodecanese islands off the west coast of Turkey. Known as “The Green Island” for its decades-long efforts at protecting its habitat for migratory birds and its successful efforts to be a Natura 2000 Reserve, in 2017 Tilos made the commitment to become the Mediterranean’s first completely energy self-sufficient island in terms of electricity generation… We decided this was a place we needed to see for ourselves, and learn how Tilos had made this environmental and cultural transformation.

The problem that challenges us today is our inability to see tomorrow, hear tomorrow, taste, smell, or touch it. It could even be right here, in front of us or all around. Right now, tomorrow is difficult to imagine. It’s far easier to forget the future, after all, than the past. But if I cannot find tomorrow, if I do not recognize it, how can I preserve or protect it?

By Deb Fassnacht | Missoula Current

It was the second week of January 2021, a sunny day with a winter temperature hovering at 29 degrees. One of those crisp, cold winter days expected in January here in Missoula. No new snow. I pondered the fate of our rivers next summer if weather patterns continue with this unseasonably dry and warm January.

By Genevieve Jessop Marsh | Missoula Current

It was 2017 when I saw the picture of Tracy Potter-Fins, owner of County Rail Farm in Huson, Montana, donning her respirator while she farmed, fields stretching out behind her. Seeing that picture was a milestone for me. This is what it means to farm in climate change.

The air—its color, its hollow stillness—spoke of an approaching front. And my body, with its low buzz of fatigue from autoimmune disease, was a mirror to that pressure drop. I’d seen the forecast earlier, but now I was enveloped in it—the looming cobalt horizon, the elk clustered on Jumbo’s crest, the cells of my immune system, also on edge.