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Climate data on top of the world: CWC students trek to Everest
By Katie Klingsporn, WyoFile.com
The alpinist team Full Circle made international headlines when it became the first all-Black expedition to summit Mount Everest in May.
Full Circle’s accomplishment was widely celebrated. What was...
Supreme Court ruling not a clear win for Wyoming coal
By Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile.com
Market forces along with state and regional climate policies will likely continue to pressure utilities to shift from planet-warming coal-fired power to wind and solar resources in Wyoming, despite the...
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Lawmakers seek deal for coal carbon capture
By Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile.com
Despite several years and a spate of new laws designed to delay the retirement of coal-fired power generating units, the state may have to press harder to broker a deal that results in a coal carbon...
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Conservation tour highlights Wyoming’s endangered toad
By Andromeda Erickson, WyoFile.com
MORTENSON LAKE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE—In this high and marshy landscape of plains lakes southwest of Laramie lies a haven for the federally endangered Wyoming toad.
Mortenson Lake...
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Inaugural Wyoming Climate Summit encourages local, collective action
By Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile.com
LANDER — Frustrated by state and federal inaction on climate change, community organizers have begun taking action in several Wyoming towns by showing the cost savings of...
Dan Andrews’s oil painting, “Out on a Limb,” won the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s 2022 conservation stamp art award.
Colorado wildlife artist Dan Andrews is no stranger to winning the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s conservation stamp art award. His art was selected in 1986 (pronghorn) and 2016 (swift fox).
Still, when his oil painting of a Pacific marten was crowned the winner of the Wyoming Game and Fish...
Wyoming officials are considering implementing user fees on mountain bikers to raise funds for trail building and maintenance as the activity surges in popularity.
The idea is still in its nascency, with no details on what form the fees would take.
That’s by design, said Dave Glenn, deputy...
The conservation purchase of a 35,670-acre ranch on the North Platte River that puts private land in federal hands bucks Wyoming and GOP resistance to an increase in federal holdings in the state.
The conservation acquisition is the largest the U.S Bureau of Land Management has undertaken in...
Collisions with rotating wind turbine blades kill a variety of birds in Wyoming — from passerines to raptors. Exactly how many birds — and whether mortality rates might pose a threat to local and migrating bird populations — remains unknown, according to state and federal wildlife officials.
The...
Wyoming lawmakers aim to improve pregnancy outcomes for moms and their babies. The item is the top interim priority for the Joint Health, Labor and Social Services Committee, which took it up during a meeting last week in Riverton.
One potential solution involves extending postpartum Medicaid...
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