Fort Lewis College students travel to Coal Bank Pass to examine snowpack and study water resources COAL BANK PASS – Fort Lewis College students spent nearly 20 minutes digging a large snow pit until ...

(CNN) - The snowstorm that broke records and brought parts of the Rockies to a standstill had something else that was quite literally buried in the snow: a layer of brownish snow that fell in New ...

Monday’s windstorm added an unwanted factor into this spring’s snowmelt equation for the Roaring Fork Valley. The storm deposited a layer of dust throughout the Colorado mountains with the Aspen area ...

It's certainly what we're seeing this year. "We have more snow than average this year," said Steven Fassnacht, a professor of snow hydrology at Colorado State University. Fassnacht has long been ...

The first automated dust-on-snow monitoring technology in the mountains of northwest Colorado is expected to be installed this fall to study the impact of dust from arid landscapes on downwind ...

The story Susan Behery tells about dust blowing into Colorado from New Mexico and Arizona sounds almost Biblical, like cows dropping dead in their owners’ fields or swarms of locusts devouring their ...

The transformation of the Roaring Fork Valley each spring from its dormant winter state to an awakened living environment is a beautiful thing to witness. Birds arrive, the creeks start flowing, the ...

Rapid snowmelt may affect Utah's ski industry, which contributes billions of dollars to the local economy each year. Chris Pearson / Ski Utah While shredding Utah’s ski slopes last year, McKenzie ...

The Colorado Rockies have been blasted by six dust storms since last December. That's the worst it has been in at least two decades. And dust doesn't just make the snow look bad. It makes the snow ...

Experts have set out exactly why the skies up north are so hazy and cars are dusty.