snowpack

At a key meeting to discuss the river's future management, federal officials lay out tools for dealing with falling reservoir levels.

New research shows that mountain regions around the world are warming faster than the lowlands below them. Scientists say that could have big consequences for the Mountain West, where communities rely on snow and ice for their water supply.

In addition to a lack of snow, warmer temperatures have thwarted snowmaking.

Federal forecasters are warning that the fire season could be very active across broad swaths of our region this July and August.

Utah is using a technology that can add more water to the state's supply. Others in the Colorado River basin are looking to expand.

Drought this spring has increased significantly across our region, with some states already hitting the highest levels.

A new study reveals snow in the Rocky Mountains is contaminated with mercury and other metals, and that pollution has historic causes.

Russ Scholl's "periodic table of snow" contains more than 100 different slang names for snow.

More than 100 years ago, a professor in the Mountain West invented a tool and technique to measure the amount of water in a snowpack — a discovery that still lives on to this day.

The wet season got off to a weak start in the Mountain West, but federal officials say recent winter storms have helped strengthen some snowpacks.