Aspen Journalism received six awards in the Colorado Press Association’s 2024 Better News Media Contest. The awards, announced on Aug. 24 at the Local News Solutions 2025 conference, honored three stories by Heather Sackett, the 10-part “In Search of Community” series by Paul Andersen, and Kaya Williams and Laurine Lassalle were twice awarded for their collaborative […]
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Colorado has big dreams to use more water from the Colorado River. But will planned reservoirs ever be built?
In the era of historic drought, climate change and crashing reservoir levels, where users already see shortages in dry years, some say this amount of water for new development simply does not exist.
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Using less of the Colorado River takes a willing farmer and $45 million in federal funds
Of all the challenges in setting up a program such as this — funding, pricing, calculating water saved, getting the word out — the biggest may be the attitudes of water users themselves, some of whom have a deep-seated mistrust of the federal government.
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Climate change causing increase in metals concentrations in streams, study finds
“These trends are concerning because, even at low concentrations, dissolved metals can negatively affect downstream ecosystem health and the quality of water resources,” reads the paper, which was published in Water Resources Research in late April.
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Crystal River mapping project
Beginning high in the Elk Mountains, the Crystal River flows 40 miles through three counties, cutting a canyon under the flanks of Mount Sopris and winding past the towns of Marble, Redstone and Carbondale before joining with the Roaring Fork River. Along the way, its waters turn mesa hayfields, acres of alfalfa and Carbondale parks […]