MIAMI (Reuters) – The Nobel Prize-winning scientist who rang the first alarm bells over the ozone hole issued a warming about climate change on Saturday, saying there could be “almost irreversible consequences” if the Earth warmed 2.5 degrees Celsius (4.5 degrees F) above what it ought to be.
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Wyoming will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Montana over the two states’ water rights to the Powder and Tongue rivers.
Wyoming State Engineer Pat Tyrrell, who was in Gillette on Thursday, said that Montana’s claims that Wyoming is unfairly taking more than its legal share of both surface and groundwater from the Powder and Tongue rivers before they cross into Montana is “not relevant.” In fact, the compact that governs water rights between the two states — the Yellowstone Compact of 1951 — does not address groundwater flows at all, he said.
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JACKSON (AP) — Money from oil and gas field developers in southwest Wyoming has been used to help buy a conservation easement on ranchland to protect sage grouse habitat.
The Conservation Fund announced it has completed a project with partners that will protect 1,042 acres of sage grouse habitat on a ranch southwest of Daniel.
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