Dust-on-snow is a major threat to water in the Colorado River, yet no snowmelt forecasts integrate dust-accelerated melt. Using pioneering remote sensing techniques, new research is the first to ...

A late-season rollercoaster ride this year turned into a steep decline for snowpack levels that feed the Colorado River.

The Colorado River system is the lifeblood of the Southwest, delivering water to 40 million people across the United States and Mexico. Drought and ...

The research is the first to capture how dust effects the broad expanse of headwaters feeding the Colorado River system ... to build detailed maps of land-surface characteristics.

The green lineage cutthroat trout, a subspecies of Colorado River cutthroat trout, is native to the Bobtail, McQueary and ...

Satellite images capture massive dust plumes blowing toward the headwaters of the Colorado River in 2013. (Courtesy University of Utah) “That additional energy that’s being absorbed ...

The countdown is on to secure the fate of one of the most important resources to Western agriculture: the Colorado River.

Artist's depiction of water rushing into Mars' Jezero Crater, which billions of years ago was the site of a delta. (Credit: ...

Volunteers split into 5 groups to clean trash and debris on a 30 mile stretch of the Colorado River that runs through the heart of Grand Junction. “The amount of waste that we pull out of here ...