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A new document from the federal government shows how some pressure is lifted from states that use water from the Colorado River until 2026, but bigger challenges lie ahead.

Jed Meunier, a research scientist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, is presenting the lecture “Fire, Climate Change & Forest Resilience in Sub-boreal Forests," which examines fire ecology in northern sub-boreal forests and makes comparisons to the West, boreal, and other forests regarding global climate change regulation and forest management. It's part of the college's 2022 Museum of Discovery Science Lecture series.

A group of about 150 energy experts, workers and students gathered in Laramie Thursday, Sept. 15, for a conference called ‘Wyoming’s Energy Future,’ where Wyoming’s Governor Mark Gordon was a keynote speaker.

Two U.S. technology companies have announced a carbon capture project in Wyoming. The state hopes this will boost the economy and help with emission goals.

Following former Vice President Mike Pence’s speech at an energy conference in Cheyenne last week, several industry leaders welcomed his thoughts.Pence stressed the importance of oil and gas production and pushing back on the ‘radical left’s’ climate agenda at the Rockies Petroleum Conference.

The future of energy production in parts of Wyoming and Montana remains uncertain following a court ruling last week.A federal judge rejected the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) two resource management plans for the Powder River Basin, which is a region in Wyoming and Montana that produces more than 40 percent of U.S. coal.

There are around 40 aquatic snail species in Wyoming, and during the snail survey the researchers found 18 species in the three areas they searched. The research was supported by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.

A new study looking at how drought might affect the Colorado River Basin projects that states like Wyoming will have less available water.Researchers out of the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico explored several weather scenarios over the next 60 years in the Colorado River Basin.

More than 2,000 Wyoming oil and gas leases will be reconsidered for their impacts to the climate, as part of a settlement approved in federal court last week.

A recent study shows that groundwater could decrease by a third in the Colorado River Basin in the next 30 years due to climate change.