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News articles, interviews, press releases, and other narratives about RMBL and the Gunnison Basin.
400 stories · 2020–2029
He’s lived alone in the Colorado mountains for 52 years measuring snow every day. Here’s what he has noticed.
A man who has tracked climate data in Colorado for 52 years said this winter is unlike anything he has ever recorded. CRESTED BUTTE, Colo. — There are places people go to get away from the news. Trail
Paul R. Ehrlich, an appreciation
Editor: Paul R. Ehrlich, a world-renowned biologist who authored “The Population Bomb,” a 1968 best seller, died on March 13 in Palo Alto, California. He was 93.
200- to-1,000-year snow anomaly observed in Colorado mountains
The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL) reports that, as of late March, spring 2026 snowpack surrounding its Gothic, Colorado, campus was at its lowest level recorded in more than 50 years of
Senator Bennet talks snowpack with local stakeholders
Daniel T. Blumstein
Link to Image Link to Story Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles Profile Artic
City animals act in the same brazen ways around the world
Cities breed smart wildlife because it takes savvy to survive there.
Mountain #snowpack should be peaking around now. This year, it's almost gone — Russ Schumacher
April 3rd, 2026 (Coyote Gulch — Delivered by Newstex) Click the link to read the article on the Colorado Climate Center website (Russ Schumacher): April 2, 2026 We've reached April 1, which is a key d
Mountain #snowpack should be peaking around now. This year, it's almost gone — Russ Schumacher (#Colorado Climate Center) #runoff
... zero SWE this year and had never previously been snow-free on April 1. The long-term measurement site at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Gothic estimated that the spring snowpack in pa
200- to-1,000-year Snow Anomaly Observed in #Colorado Mountains: New analysis by the Rocky Mountain
April 2nd, 2026 (Coyote Gulch — Delivered by Newstex) Graph created by RMBL Principal Research Scientist Ian Breckheimer, PhD, on March 23, 2026, courtesy of Ian Breckheimer Click the link to read the
RMBL invites community members to learn about data collection
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory hosted a ski-in ski-out trip to their Crystal Hut out Gothic mid March, inviting the public to join them and see how snow science is really conducted. …
200- to-1,000-year Snow Anomaly Observed in #Colorado Mountains: New analysis by the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory reveals that the 2026 snow #drought is unprecedented in the recent historical record #snowpack #runoff #GunnisonRiver #ColoradoRiver #COriver #aridification
... 200- to-1,000-year Snow Anomaly Observed in #Colorado Mountains: New analysis by the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory reveals that the 2026 snow #drought is unprecedented in the recent histori
Warming and snow loss increase reliance on old groundwater in a Colorado River headwater
Abstract Atmospheric warming is reducing snowpack, with uncertain effects on mountainous streamflow, a crucial water resource. Despite limited historical observations of groundwater–streamflow interac
From meadows to scrubland: how global warming is transforming Colorado 's alpine meadows
... 3,000 meters above sea level around the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory , in the former mining town of Gothic, researchers heated five 30-square-meter plots with infrared heaters powered year
From meadows to scrubland: how global warming is transforming Colorado's alpine meadows
One of the changes resulting from global warming can be observed in the heart of the Colorado Rockies, where an ongoing experiment has shown that "a sustained increase of just 2 °C can fundamentally a
De praderas a matorrales: así el calentamiento global transforma praderas alpinas de Colorado
Una de las transformaciones derivadas del calentamiento global se observa en el corazón de las Montañas Rocosas de Colorado, donde un experimento en curso demostró que "un aumento sostenido de apenas
Rise of the shrubs: what happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C?
A long-running experiment in Colorado provides an ‘alarming’ view of how rapidly unchecked global
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Research Conducted at Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Has Updated
Our Knowledge about Science (Experimental warming decouples plantfungal symbiont interactions and leads to a more conservative ecosystem) ... Research Conducted at Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
Research Conducted at Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Has Updated Our Knowledge about Science
2026 MAR 03 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx Science Daily -- A new study on Science is now available. According to news reporting originating from Crested Butte, Colorado, b
LONG-TERM WARMING TRANSFORMS MOUNTAIN MEADOWS ABOVE AND BELOW GROUND
NORMAN, Okla., Feb. 28 -- University of Oklahoma issued the following news release: By Kat Gebauer kathryngebauer@ou.edu Date NORMAN, Okla. - In the longest-running field warming experiment of its kin