- When the East Troublesome fire ignited a year ago, no one expected what would come next. About a week after the initial spark, the winds picked up and combined with historically dry conditions, and the wildfire rapidly blew up to nearly 190,000 acres. The flames closed Rocky Mountain National Park and made a run into
- Moving livestock around improves ecosystem health, but rotational grazing isn’t a new idea.
- The goats clear noxious weeds, help with erosion control along rivers and eat brush that could fuel big wildfires.
- The drought is drying up the Colorado River as well as Lake Powell and Lake Mead, the two largest reservoirs in the U.S.
- And statewide, it was the fourth-warmest summer on record, according to a report from the Colorado Climate Center.
- A new study finds that warmer temperatures have somewhat sped-up ground-level ozone production, especially in historically disenfranchised communities.
- Spring-planted crops like corn, sunflower and millet are struggling after the rain stopped this summer.
- It's the first time the federal government is taking water from the Blue Mesa Reservoir to help out Lake Powell on the Utah-Arizona border.
- They'll gather important data for Colorado and the West as a climate change-fueled megadrought dries up the Colorado River.
- Colorado is now reporting 1,100 COVID cases per day for the first time since mid-May.
- For one, it might be more dangerous when you're further away from the fire.
- Climate change, drought and overuse of the Colorado River system are jeopardizing the reliability of this water, which supplies 40 million people in the West.
- More than 40 million people rely on the Colorado River in the West, and every drop of it is used. But with climate change, there’s now less water to go around.
- Colorado will have to release water from the Blue Mesa Reservoir because of a 2019 multi-state drought contingency plan.
- Creeks and other sources of water are drying up, threatening the Western Slope's ranches.
- The North American monsoon has returned to Colorado, and the rain has brought some much-needed relief to some of the driest parts of the state — after multiple back-to-back years of almost no summer rain.
