Environment

There are approximately 20,000 species of butterflies in the world. Butterflies range in size from a tiny 1/8 inch wingspan to almost 12 inches. There are approximately 50 species of butterflies in Colorado including: brush-footed butterflies, admirals...

Dear Eartha: It has been two years since the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Living in the mountains, I feel like I've fallen out of touch with the progress. Can you provide a status update? — Bill, Summit Cove

Officials anticipate few changes during 30-day comment period

A historically low snowpack combined with an earlier-than-normal runoff could make this summer a difficult one for water management in Summit County — a place where life is sustained by the Blue River, its tributaries and reservoir levels at Dillon...

WOLF CREEK PASS — Davey Pitcher leans over the sheer cliff, his ski tips throwing shadows on the snow 50 feet below.

“Yeah, I've hit this,” he said. “But over there, it's a little bigger. That one was better.”

A compact call looms in the 10th year of sustained drought in the Colorado River Basin.

The Upper Basin, which includes all of Colorado, would have to send water downstream, and would be faced with dramatic curtailment measures.

DENVER — Wyoming water quality officials said Thursday that they were unaware that a troublesome oil facility in northern Colorado has been dumping up to 400,000 gallons a day of treated wastewater from well drilling that flows into the North...

Dear Eartha, it's time to be outside again, to boat, bike, play and pee! We have are planning a river trip. Is it better to pee in the river or on land? —Sam, Breckenridge