Climate Change

The latest Utah news from Wednesday morning, Oct. 20, 2021

A new study released by Utah State University found Utah will likely warm dramatically due to climate change. The study looked at the impact that reality will have on Utah’s ski resorts and what can be done to sustain them.

Biden is changing the country’s bedrock environmental law back to where it was before the Trump Administration. Utah conservationists say that will benefit the state.

A recent study from researchers at the University of Utah found that in some cases, increasing the country’s supply of renewable energy leads to more emissions. The explanation seems to be that people are compensating by consuming more.

The latest Utah news from Tuesday morning, Sept. 28, 2021.

All of Utah is in severe drought heading into the fall, and the state of emergency due to those conditions is set to expire at the end of October. Utah officials are asking the Legislature to extend that order.

Utah lawmakers discussed the benefits of a carbon tax at a panel on climate solutions Tuesday, noting it’s a simple, market-based solution Republicans could support.

Salt Lake City plans to finish replanting trees toppled by the storm In November, but it’ll be decades before urban forest returns to the way it was before the wind.

The Colorado River through the Grand Canyon National Park holds lessons for managing an essential and diminishing resource in a rapidly warming climate.

The latest Utah news from Thursday evening, July 29, 2021.

A new study, published in the journal, Nature Climate Change, shows a surprising new way in which heat and humidity are interrelated and comes at the beginning of a summer that is already sweltering and plagued with wildfire and drought.

Colorado River water managers could be pulled back to the negotiating table as soon as next year to keep its biggest reservoirs from declining further.