Climate

Several key findings from the Greater Yellowstone Climate Assessment will be presented at the University of Wyoming’s 2021 Harlow Summer Seminars in Jackson. The annual Harlow Summer Seminars program returns after a one-year hiatus because of COVID-19 concerns. A dinn...

The drought is driving up the cost of hay.

The Office of Governor Mark Gordon has released a statement indicating that Wyoming has joined 21 other states in a lawsuit to block Biden’s cancellation of the Keystone Pipeline.

A study of biomass burning aerosols led by University of Wyoming researchers has shown that smoke from wildfires has more of a cooling effect on the atmosphere than computer models assume. The paper, titled “Biomass Burning Aerosols in Most Climate Models Are Too Absorbing,” that was published January 12 in Nature Communications, a journal that publishes high-quality research from all areas of the

The plan includes a proposal to stop all climate-damaging emissions from power plants.

Some Republicans are skeptical, saying California should use existing money to address the problem.

Thunberg has become the face of the youth climate movement.

The judge did not block drilling statewide, but only ordered the BLM not allow drilling on 282 lease sites until it reconsiders its analyses.

The Clean Power Plan sought to ratchet down use of the dirtiest fossil fuel.

The appeals court questioned the BLM argument that blocking the mining wouldn't reduce greenhouse gas emissions because utilities would get coal elsewhere.