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 ...

The snow in Colorado's high country — the source of drinking water for Colorado Springs and much of the West — is melting early this year, and it may be more than the spring thaw draining the peaks of ...

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 ...

DENVER (AP) - Dust blown in from the Southwest settled on snow over many of Colorado's mountains during this week's storm and will eventually affect how fast the snowpack melts and possibly how much ...

Desert dust blown onto Rocky Mountain peaks has cut the duration of snow-cover by a month or more, and the same thing is probably happening in the Alps and Himalayas, researchers reported on Monday.

Utah’s trademarked “greatest snow on earth” may be getting dirtier — and melting faster — due in part to dust blowing off newly exposed lakebed from the shrinking Great Salt Lake. Snow in the Wasatch ...

br>SUMMIT COUNTY – Snow, especially newly fallen snow, is supposed to be white, right? After all, a big dump often inspires the poetically inclined to wax lyrical about the pure, virginal qualities of ...