Rivers drop, algae spreads as drought deepens 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.

Blackfoot River, W.C.MT: “As of Wed., the gage near Bonner was measuring a streamflow of 839 cubic feet per second, well below the median flow of 2,420 cfs for July 2nd.”

🏞️💧71 degrees F., 8 degrees warmer than the median. #BlackfootChallenge #MTClimate #MTRivers missoulacurrent.com/rivers-droug...

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Workers call for protection of solar-panel tax credit at Montana demonstration Montana Renewable Energy Association gathered solar panel industry workers to show how many citizen's income would be affected if Trump's Big Beautiful Bill Act passed.

“The proposed bill aims to cut (federal) tax credit incentives for solar-panel construction by the end of this year, accelerating the gradual phase-out of the program.”

One installer who’s 👌🏼with🐘🤡 asks for more time to retire the tax credits. #MTClimate #MTNews #MTPol www.kpax.com/news/montana...

2025 Stripes Day

Two days late, but voila: look at the differences in warming, as shown by the 1880s (or 1890s)-to-2024 climate stripes, for Butte, Great Falls, Helena, Missoula and Montana as a whole. #MTClimate observablehq.com/@climatecent...

Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired Exclusive: Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content

“… there is now also no one left to run climate.gov social media accounts … Since staff in charge of climate.gov did a lot of pushback on misinformation, their absence may help anti-science information flourish there more readily.” #MTClimate #MTNews www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...