In the wake of a warm April, Colorado’s snowpack is going through early snowmelt with below-normal ... executive director of the Colorado River Outfitters Association. “The industry has ...

The amount of snowmelt expected to reach the key reservoirs on the Colorado River this spring is far below the median of the last two decades, despite near-normal snowpack levels and heavy March ...

Nearly all water in the 1,450-mile-long river originates from snowmelt in the Upper Colorado River Basin, a region adjacent to arid landscapes that regularly blows dust onto mountain snowpacks.

And while previous papers have recorded the impact dust has on snowmelt, University of Utah researchers are the first to study an area as large as the Colorado River headwaters, which spans ...