Rachel Cohen
Mountain West 暗黑爆料 Bureau reporterRachel Cohen is the Mountain West 暗黑爆料 Bureau reporter for KUNC. She covers topics most important to the Western region. She spent five years at Boise State Public Radio, where she reported from Twin Falls and the Sun Valley area, and shared stories about the environment and public health.
As a National Science Health and Environment Reporting Fellow (SHERF), she studied the intersection of these topics and examined how climate change affects human health.
Her favorite part of working in public radio is getting to meet interesting people and talk about what matters to them. When not working, she enjoys hiking, skiing, checking out coffee shops and watching women鈥檚 soccer.
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A new project asks travelers to donate to tribes whose homelands and sacred sites are occupied by parks and monuments. The goal is to compensate tribes connected to the land and to educate visitors. -
Researchers say dogs could alert wildlife managers of infected animals faster than lab results could confirm and could help surveille an environment for chronic wasting disease. -
A group of communities in the Mountain West are now giving grants to companies that work on removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. -
Selling federal land often worries conservationists, but an environmental law professor says this proposal is different. -
A dozen agriculture, mining, oil and gas organizations filed a lawsuit this month to overturn the rule, which elevates conservation in land-use decisions. They argue it undermines traditional uses. -
It was over 100 degrees last week when 160 workers in Colorado were culling 1.8 million chickens with avian flu at a commercial egg-laying facility. -
The Rocky Mountain Regional Rodeo is an event that challenges the hyper-masculinity associated with rodeos and Western ranching culture. -
Colorado claims to have the longest-running gay rodeo in America. The Rocky Mountain Regional Rodeo is a place to challenge hyper-masculine expectations in country and western culture.
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These state-regulated plans are typically more expensive and offer less coverage compared to private insurance. Colorado鈥檚 is the first new Fair Access to Insurance Requirements (FAIR) plan created in the U.S. in decades. -
Schools and libraries are seeing unprecedented attempts to pull books, deemed controversial by some, off the shelves. A new study finds those books are often about and by diverse people.
