Officials are growing more and more concerned about low water levels in the Colorado River, which recently saw one of its ...

A tribal nation has declared the Colorado River a legal person. An Indigenous leader says it reflects how her people have ...

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, ...

As the Colorado River gets overused, replenishing its dwindling water supplies could be as straightforward as piping in water from other U.S. river basins. This idea of moving water from places where ...

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, ...

For the past four years, National Geographic Explorer Caitlin Ochs has trekked up and down the Colorado River by foot, raft, car and air to document the impacts of climate change. By her estimate, she ...

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 ...

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 ...

Declines of underground water supplies that are vital to cities and farming in the Colorado River Basin are outpacing the losses of the river’s water, according to new research published last week ...