climate change

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory would lose a third of its funding, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory would lose more than half.

The head of the EPA bragged about driving a dagger into the heart of climate action on a conservative podcast.

Amy Cilimburg writes, "In a landmark decision, the United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ), the world’s highest court, ruled that nation states must prevent harm to the climate system and that this is a basic human right."

Researchers, in a study published Thursday in the journal Science, suggest these extremes may be more than just another milestone in a warming world.

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen has filed a motion for the state to intervene in a federal climate change lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Montana last year.

Montana's Congressional delegation has introduced a measure in Congress that would overturn a Biden administration rule halting any future coal leases on federal land from its Miles City office, which oversees part of the Powder River coal tract.

While smoke is bad for everyone, children, older adults, pregnant people, people with heart and lung disease, and people who can’t avoid exposures, such as outdoor workers and people living outside, are at greater risk of health impacts.

The fishing restriction prohibit angling on the designated stretches of river from 2 p.m. to midnight each day, and will remain in place until conditions improve.

The amount of forest with problems is only a small fraction of the overall 22 million acres state officials looked at, but it is slightly above the 10-year average.

After a warm, dry spring and early summer that hammered the winter snowpack, Montana’s rivers are already showing signs of stress with two months of summer to go.