There is a slow-motion catastrophe unfolding across the American West, and most people living inside its shadow don't fully realize it yet. The Colorado River, a 1,450-mile lifeline carved through ...

The states along the Colorado River are proving the truth of the famous adage often attributed to Mark Twain: "Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over." At the end of the year, the current ...

The Colorado River is in trouble: Not as much water flows into the river as people are entitled to take out of it. A new idea might change that, but complicated political and practical negotiations ...

The Colorado River basin has lost huge volumes of groundwater over the past two decades according to a new report from researchers at Arizona State University. Researchers used data from NASA ...

The Colorado has been struggling for decades. This summer could bring it to the brink, threatening endangered wildlife and communities. There is not enough water flowing in the Colorado River to meet ...

Geologists have solved the mystery of the disappearance from the geological record, millions of years ago, of one of North America's most important waterways: the Colorado River. A paper published in ...

BOULDER, Colorado — If the Colorado River Basin experiences another dry winter, there will be an "outcome with devastating consequences," a new study warns. It is likely that storage in Lake Powell ...

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