For most of the year, snow covers Colorado’s highest peaks. Above about 11,000 feet, cold blustery winds can be relentless through the winter. But summer can transform these Alpine tundra environments ...

I have a difficult time picking favorites - favorite color, or food, or movie. My tastes aren’t generally that black and white. Biomes, on the other hand, are easy for me. I have always been drawn to ...

After years of escalating greenhouse gas emissions from melting permafrost in the Arctic, scientists have discovered a similar problem from a new source: Colorado’s Front Range. Defrosting alpine ...

An ancient fossilized forest in Montana is reemerging 600 feet higher than the present-day tree line after spending the last 5,500 years encased in alpine tundra. But as temperatures continue to warm, ...

KEYSTONE, Colo. (KDVR) – After a construction company damaged protected alpine tundra at a ski resort in Colorado’s high country, the expansion project they were conducting has been stopped until ...