BASALT, Colorado – Crews were put on standby Tuesday to place sandbags along the Roaring Fork and Fryingpan rivers in Basalt, and law enforcement agencies prepared plans to evacuate two mobile home ...

BASALT — As the flow in the Roaring Fork River at the Basalt whitewater park has climbed over 2,500 cubic feet per second this week, the park’s two “play” waves, produced by concrete structures ...

Injecting carbon dioxide deep underground into basalt flows holds promise as an abatement strategy. Now, new research sheds light on exactly what happens underground during the process, illustrating ...

UPDATE 11:15 p.m. — Emergency responders and public works crews continued to work on flooding response in the Basalt area below the Lake Christine Fire burn scar into the night Sunday. No injuries or ...

Far beneath the Earth's surface, a fiery world of viscous molten rock exists below the continental and oceanic plates, perpetually churning and shifting under the immense pressure and stress of a ...

The biggest threats in the aftermath of the Lake Christine Fire are falling trees on national forest lands, floods and debris flows, according to an assessment released Thursday by the U.S. Forest ...

Basalt Whitewater Park has obvious recreational benefits. Since it came into being in 2017, the Roaring Fork River attraction has been popular with rafters and kayakers alike — and has even helped to ...

The charred landscapes that wildfires leave behind are susceptible to erosion, flooding and debris flows, like the mudslides that blocked roads in Basalt the summer following the Lake Christine Fire.