According to Skiles, the amount of dust found in Utah snow is largely due to human activity, adding that settlements and widespread grazing have a particularly large impact on dust levels in ...

The Colorado River is a vital water source for a large chunk of the West, but dust continues to impact its reliability, a ...

The seven states that use the Colorado River are deadlocked about how to share it in the future. The current rules for ...

Is wasteful water use causing shortages? The Natural Resources Defense Council is urging the U.S. government to enforce a ...

National water conservation groups filed a legal petition Tuesday asking the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to stop downstream ...

The U.S. Department of Interior said Wednesday it extended more than a dozen contracts with water-rights holders in ...

Although the headwaters of the Colorado River begin high in the mountains of Colorado, the river itself journeys 1,450 miles through many arid states. That journey leaves it vulnerable because the ...

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

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

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

The Colorado River's Lower Basin states of California, Arizona, and Nevada send about $1.5 million each year to Utah, Wyoming ...