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A sheep grazes among photovoltaic solar panels in the village of Hjolderup, Denmark. Credit: Sergei Gapon/AFP via Getty Images

In Wyoming, Sheep May Safely Graze Under Solar Panels in One of the State’s First “Agrivoltaic” Projects

By Jake Bolster

The Shoshone Hydroelectric Facility sits beneath a busy stretch of Interstate 70 on Jan. 26, 2024. The Colorado River District is poised to spend $98.5 million on rights to its water in an effort to keep the Colorado River flowing for farms and cities in Western Colorado. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

In $100 Million Colorado River Deal, Water and Power Collide

By Alex Hager, KUNC

The sun shines on St. George, Utah on Jan. 25. Washington County's population has quadrupled since 1990, and projections say it could double again by 2050. Credit: David Condos/KUER

How One of the Nation’s Fastest Growing Counties Plans to Find Water in the Desert

By David Condos, KUER

A truck loaded with coal drives away from the Eagle Butte Coal Mine in the Powder River basin. Credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Wyoming, Slow To Take Federal Clean Energy Funds, Gambles State Money on Carbon Sequestration and Hydrogen Schemes to Keep Fossil Fuels Flowing

By Jake Bolster

State park visitors walk along a section of the Great Salt Lake that used to be underwater on Aug. 2, 2021 near Magna, Utah. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Utah Legislature Takes Aim at Rights of Nature Movement

By Katie Surma

The sprawl of North Las Vegas is viewed from the air on Jan. 11, 2022. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

Environmentalists See Nevada Supreme Court Ruling Bringing State’s Water Management ‘Into the 21st Century’

By Wyatt Myskow

A large solar farm off Interstate 15 in Arrolime, Nevada. Credit: Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

It Could Soon Get a Whole Lot Easier to Build Solar in the Western US

By Wyatt Myskow

Cows graze near a coal-fired power plant on Nov. 22, 2022 in Kemmerer, Wyoming. Credit: Natalie Behring/Getty Images

A Long-Delayed BLM Resource Management Plan in Southwest Wyoming Pits Conservation Against Resource Extraction

By Jake Bolster

The UMTRA Project, a U.S. Department of Energy's remedial operation to remove radioactive uranium tailings from a former mill site is viewed on Oct. 7, 2023 near Moab, Utah. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

First Uranium Mines to Dig in the US in Eight Years Begin Operations Near Grand Canyon

By Wyatt Myskow

Snowfall covers Boulder Creek near Nederland, Colorado. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Colorado Town Appoints Legal Guardians to Implement the Rights of a Creek and a Watershed

By Katie Surma

The Glen Canyon Dam, photographed in August 2021. Credit: Bureau of Reclamation

Lake Powell Is Still in Trouble. Here’s What’s Good and What’s Alarming About the Current Water Level

By Dan Gearino

Pronghorn migrate in Wyoming. Credit: Joel Berger

A BLM Proposal to Protect Wildlife Corridors Could Restore the West’s ‘Veins and Arteries’

By Adam Goldstein

Lake Powell at sunrise on September 2, 2022 near Page, Arizona. The light colored "bathtub ring" above the waterline was created underwater before record drought reduced the flow of the Colorado River.

Feds Bet on Paying for Water Conservation to Protect the Colorado River

By Wyatt Myskow

Three members of security and law enforcement tackle Teddy Ogborn last week at the Jackson Lake Lodge, where the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium was being held in Jackson Hole Wyoming. Credit: Climate Defiance

Activists Crash Powerful Economic Symposium in Jackson Hole as Climate Protests and Responses to Them Escalate

By Keerti Gopal

Wind electric power generation turbines generate electricity outside Medicine Bow, Wyoming in August 2022. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/ AFP via Getty Images.

Wyoming Could Gain the Most from Federal Climate Funding, But Obstacles Are Many

By Marianne Lavelle

Plaintiff Mica Kantor, 14, testifies on the second day of the trial. He shared that he felt like a "prisoner in his own home" when he contracted Covid during an outbreak of wildfire smoke and was forced to stay in his basement alone. He suffers from asthma and must stay indoors when the air quality is poor. Credit: Richard Forbes

In a Montana Courtroom, Debate Over Whether States Can Make a Difference on Climate Change, and if They Have a Responsibility to Try

By Richard Forbes

Lead plaintiff Rikki Held on her family's ranch in southeastern Montana. Behind her, a wildfire burns four miles away. In Summer 2022, this was one of 18 wildfires within 50 miles of her home.

Love of the Land and Community Inspired the Montana Youths Whose Climate Lawsuit Against the State Goes to Court This Week

By Richard Forbes

In an aerial view, ranchers and other participants gather to observe cattle grazing in freshly opened pasture using adaptive grazing at CS Ranch, as they take part in the Soil Health Academy which teaches regenerative agriculture techniques, on June 1, 2022 in Cimarron, New Mexico. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Climate-Smart Cowboys Hope Regenerative Cattle Ranching Can Heal the Land and Sequester Carbon

By Emma Peterson

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