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 ...

The first automated dust-on-snow monitoring technology in the mountains of northwest Colorado is expected to be installed this fall to study the impact of dust from arid landscapes on downwind ...

Rapid snowmelt may affect Utah's ski industry, which contributes billions of dollars to the local economy each year. Chris Pearson / Ski Utah While shredding Utah’s ski slopes last year, McKenzie ...

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 ...

SILVERTON – Everybody who skis the backcountry or who has dug a “hasty pit” to study the stability of a snowpack has seen layers of dust left by winter storms. The dust can look like the layers of ...