Scientists have known that dust settling on snowpack speeds up snowmelt, but new research shows that nearly all of the Upper ...

Spring heat waves in early April rapidly melted snow across Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, leading to large drops in the state’s ...

May and beyond — Arapahoe Basin and the Mary Jane side at Winter Park. Spokespeople for each of those resorts have said they ...

Using 23 years of satellite data, University of Utah hydrologists studied how dust-darkened snow is hastening runoff and ...

What a difference a month makes. The forecast for how much water will flow this year into Lake Powell, a bellwether reservoir ...

Hydrologists say that hotter temperatures have been drying out soils and vegetation in the west, leading to less water ...

The federal forecast for 55% of normal April to July runoff into Lake Powell means this year’s runoff could be the second lowest in the past six years. The prediction was made Wednesday by the federal ...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation says Arizona will likely continue to take cuts in its Colorado River supply next year. The ...

Researchers at the University of Utah recently published a first-of-its-kind study that measures the impact dust has on ...

Ken Curtis, a water manager in southwestern Colorado, had two words to describe his district’s expected water supply this ...

Ski season is over, but Mother Nature is dumping snow across the American southwest this week.

The snowpack at the headwaters of the Colorado River came in at 18% above normal. Rafting on the Upper Colorado and the ...