For nearly a quarter of a century, the United Nations has released periodic reports collating thousands of scientists’ assessments of climate change. The bottom line: the accumulation of greenhouse gas emissions from the human enterprise constitute a threat to the planet. That makes climate change the most urgent, consequential, dangerous, and difficult challenge of our time. Arguably, it fits that billing for any time. The only other case of humanity threatening its own survival is the specter of global thermonuclear war, which is easier to deal with: avoiding World War III is a matter of leaders’ not doing something—pressing the buttons that launch the missiles. Keeping climate change at bay is a matter of taking action on numerous fronts and doing so seriously, massively, effectively, and soon.

Patricia Mulroy has been called “the water empress of Vegas.” For 25 years, she lead the Southern Nevada Water Authority, the agency responsible for keeping the taps running in a desert metropolis that was growing like the fat guy in the Monty Python skit. As I wrote yesterday, she was a force to be reckoned with.

Developed by the the White House Task Force to Protect Students From Sexual Assault, NotAlone.gov provides information, tools, and resources for students and schools on how to respond to and prevent sexual assault in schools and on college and university campuses.

Cliven Bundy the man might be disgraced and discredited after his racist comments last week, but his anti-governmental stance has inspired a host of activity resisting the federal government -- including calls by Western state leaders to take back federal lands. We'll talk the ins-and-outs with our panel, and also hear how the Bundy saga is hurting Bureau of Land Management progress outside of Clark County.