The Colorado Rockies have been blasted by six dust storms since last December. That's the worst it has been in at least two decades. And dust doesn't just make the snow look bad. It makes the snow ...

As a skier, Auden Schendler sums it up with pragmatic simplicity. “You can’t wax for dirt,” he says. As the Aspen/Snowmass director of community and environmental responsibility, Schendler’s concerns ...

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY — (KUTV) — According to research from the University of Utah, dust is a threat to one of Utah's most important assets: its snow. It found that declining water levels in the Great Salt ...

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 ...