The Colorado Plateau – a heart-shaped desert region encompassing portions of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Arizona – is home to some of the most unique landscapes and wildlife in the entire nation.

The vast Great Basin stretches west from the Colorado Plateau across much of Utah and Nevada. The region is so named because ...

A newly constructed paved path along Monument Road will connect up a 10-mile loop through the Redlands fulfilling a vision ...

Snowmelt and the runoff from it are critical to water supplies in the Valley and across the region. But new research suggests ...

The scope of the alerts underscores a severe multi-state wind event affecting millions of people and thousands of miles of ...

Scientists have known that dust settling on snowpack speeds up snowmelt, but new research shows that nearly all of the Upper ...

As destructive as the West's biggest fires are, their flames still reach fewer places than wildfires touched historically.

The Painted Desert in northern Arizona is a mesmerizing landscape of vibrant badlands stretching across the Colorado Plateau. Its striking reds, purples, and oranges come from layered sedimentary rock ...

Spring storms kick up rich, red dust from across the Colorado Plateau and carry it for miles ... U.S. has had an ongoing drought that's made the region increasingly arid over the last few decades ...

Dust-on-snow is a major threat to water in the Colorado River, yet no snowmelt forecasts integrate dust-accelerated melt.

Wind alerts are in place for the following areas: Arizona: In regions including the Little Colorado River Valley, the Kaibab Plateau and the Mogollon Rim. Strong winds are expected to persist ...

Back when they began, there were thought to be just 160 BarrierCanyon sites on the Colorado Plateau, a vast 130,000- square-mile region that comprises parts of Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico.