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 ...

DENVER ” Ranching, mining, energy exploration and other activities that raise dust in the West are helping diminish the snowpack that supplies much of the region’s water, a new study says. Colorado ...

A new study has found that dust, not spring warmth, controls the pace of spring snowmelt that feeds the headwaters of the Colorado River. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the amount of dust on the ...

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