Colorado’s 150th birthday is up in flames. What does this mean for the future of wildfires?

Article references new study by Adrienne Marshall, a computational hydrologist and assistant professor of geology and geological engineering, that predicts how snowpack will be impacted by climate change.
July 29, 2026

Drawn by helium-3, lunar mining companies prepare for initial missions

Chris Dreyer, professor of practice in the space resources graduate program, explained the most likely source for helium-3 on the moon is from ilmenite, a titanium-iron oxide that absorbs the gas.
July 29, 2026

Silicon Valley’s empire state of mines

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, says that Silicon Valley can pour all the capital it wants into new-age mining: It won't change the fact that it's a tough industry plagued by a shrinking labor pool.
July 28, 2026

Physicists disprove decades-old Richard Feynman theory on 'silly' sprinklers

Brennan Sprinkle, assistant professor of applied mathematics and statistics, was a collaborator on a new study that disproved the age old "silly" sprinklers theory.
July 27, 2026

La Plata joins DOE mineral AI research

Metallic Minerals Corp.'s La Plata project has been selected as one of two initial test systems for a U.S. DOE-supported research initiative led by Mines to apply AI to critical minerals exploration.
July 27, 2026

Water hauling is the new chore no rancher asked for

Adrienne Marshall's study found climate change made the drought in the Western U.S. 14 times more likely in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Marshall is a computational hydrologist and an assistant professor of geology/geological engineering.
July 25, 2026

Severe lack of snow this past winter made more likely by global warming

NPR's Mountain West News Bureau interviewed Adrienne Marshall, a computational hydrologist, about her PNAS study looking at the recent drought across the west.
July 23, 2026

Climate horrors in Colorado are no longer just a threat. They’ve arrived.

This article notes that a new Mines study found that climate change makes snow drought about 14 times more likely in the Upper Colorado River Basin.
July 23, 2026

Ryan Warner, Lisa Hidalgo discuss Mines drought study

Ryan Warner, host of Colorado Matters on Colorado Public Radio, and Lisa Hidalgo, forecasters at 9NEWS, discuss a new Mines study that found droughts across the west are far more likely due to human-caused climate change.
July 23, 2026

Climate change has made Colorado's severe winter drought far more likely, according to new study

Adrienne Marshall, a computational hydrologist and assistant professor of geology/geologic engineering, says based on her study she expects droughts to become more common due to human-caused climate change.
July 23, 2026

Global warming unmakes winter in the US West

Adrienne Marshall, a computational hydrologist and assistant professor of geology and geological engineering, said it was a ”gut punch” when she discovered how much more frequent extreme global warming-caused snow droughts will likely be.
July 22, 2026

Colorado drought increasingly linked to long-term climate change

Adrienne Marshall, a computational hydrologist who is an assitant professor of geology/geological engineering, said she hopes her study helps motivate people to think about how they can adapt to and avoid very low snow years.
July 22, 2026