You can’t escape it, dust is everywhere. It covers Utah communities with a fine layer of grit. It gets whipped in the wind to snow-covered peaks where it absorbs heat and melts the snowpack. It settles onto rivers and reservoirs and peppers farm fields. I...

LOGAN, Utah - Four years ago, the fates were well aligned for Izzy Wappett to choose a major in the Quinney College of Natural Resources (QCNR). She’d been warming up for outdoor adventure by climbing the cliffs of Logan Canyon and running rivers like the...

It takes an armada of sentries to keep contaminants out of your drinking water. When storms stir up sediments and push them downstream, water managers have to be ready to shut off one source of water and pivot to others. This creates major inefficiencies ...

Despite the name, it’s actually rust-and-cream colored water that flows between the banks of the Green River in southeastern Utah. As a flotilla of canoes meanders down the narrow sandstone stretches and around the gooseneck bends of Labyrinth Canyon, eve...