Tribes across the West have worked with states to protect the Colorado River and conserve enough water to raise elevations in ...

Colorado is a state with plenty of gorgeous drives over mountains, through valleys, alongside rivers, and into canyons. But only a few, 13 to be exact, are labeled as either National Scenic Byways or ...

The Colorado River — the “American Nile” — winds from its headwaters high in the Rocky Mountains and down through the canyons and mesas of southeastern Utah before it reaches the Glen Canyon Dam, ...

The Colorado River is in trouble in ways that the white settlers who claimed it in the 1800s, and the powerful government and industrial leaders who later negotiated rights over it in the early 1900s, ...

Of all the challenges facing the Colorado River, there’s at least one that all stakeholders are working on collaboratively, not competitively — salinity. Since 1974, the seven Colorado River basin ...

The 1922 Colorado River Compact, a foundational interstate agreement that informs the management of a river that serves 40 million people, did not settle Native American tribes’ water rights. Tribes ...

If you took a look at a map of Rocky Mountain snow right now you would see a lot of red. The mountains that feed the Colorado River with snowmelt are strikingly dry, with many ranges holding less than ...

A new report compiled by CU warns that threats to the Colorado River's water supply are now so severe that they pose a significant risk to the water supply in seven Western states and tribal areas.

As I’ve followed the long-running negotiations over the Colorado River the last couple of years, very little progress has been made in transforming the century-old system of managing the river’s ...

A research effort tracking water scarcity around the world shows California, Arizona and other Western states are experiencing water stress at high levels similar to arid countries such as Saudi ...

Correction: The audio version of this story refers to Andrew Mead, the writer of an opinion piece in the L.A. Times. That is incorrect. The correct name is Aaron Mead. Climate change is affecting our ...