With no consensus among stakeholders, PJM Interconnection’s 10-member board now must craft a policy for surging data-center demand that has already driven up electricity prices for millions.

All three Teton County resorts have postponed their planned openings because of little snow and warm temperatures that have frustrated snowmaking.

A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.

The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

How the cryosphere has shaped military history—and why the specter of nuclear winter endures

Click the link to read the briefing on the Western Water Assessment website: November 10, 2025 – CO, UT, WY Much of the region received above average October precipitation, except for eastern…

Environmental groups outline their views about what is best in wake of Colorado coal plant's latest — and extended — outage.

By Mitch Tobin, The Water Desk As the American West warms due to climate change, wildfires are increasingly burning in higher-elevation mountains, charring the watersheds where the region’s vital snowpack accumulates. A new study has found that in the immediate aftermath of fires across the region, the snowpack disappears earlier in burned areas. This change can threaten forest health and affect the downstream farms, cities and species that rely on the snowpack for their water, according to other research.

The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

It’s been a long, hot and dry year, and perhaps few people know it better than those who gathered last week at the West Slope Water Summit in Montrose.

Yellowstone has long been a mecca for scientists studying how predators affect everything from elk grazing to vegetation height. They are still debating how to make sense of what they’ve learned.

BELÉM, Brazil—After negotiators at COP30 retreated from meaningful climate action by failing to specifically mention the need to stop using fossil fuels in the final conference documents published Sat...