More than half of Washington state is abnormally dry as a warm spring is resulting in snow melting fast in the mountains.

Melting snow from California's Sierra Nevada is filling reservoirs. But dry conditions have shrunk the flow of the Colorado ...

Snow has been melting at rapid rates throughout the region, including in the Rocky Mountains, and that could mean increased ...

On the heels of a winter that left Washington’s mountaintops relatively bare, warm spring ... snow. Much of Washington’s water supply relies on snowpack accumulating over the winter and ...

A warm, mostly dry start to spring and rapidly melting snowpack are expected to bring low streamflows across Western Colorado ...

A heavy snow melt and a snap warm spell have caused mosquitoes to emerge "all at once" in Ottawa, according to an expert in ...

The data, released May 20, show that drought conditions across Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Wyoming have worsened ...

Researchers are trying to rebuild sea ice above the Arctic Circle so it can reflect the sun’s warming rays, slowing climate ...

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has issued an advisory encouraging outdoor adventurers to postpone ...

The western U.S. is experiencing a late-season snow drought, according to an update Wednesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Integrated Drought Information System.

Stamford native Jerry Zezima writes a humor column for Tribune News Service and is the author of seven books. His latest is ...