The Colorado River Basin is, quite literally, 50 feet away from collapse, and an agreement to save it is nowhere in sight.

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 ...

MOAB — The Colorado River is struggling and faces a shortfall that will forever shape the West. An easy enemy to blame is agriculture. But are there other unseen culprits? There are, according to ...

The hydrology is becoming a significant component in negotiations between the seven states along the Colorado River, who are in Las Vegas to try to come up with a new deal to manage it.

Loralei Cloud, a Southern Ute tribal member and Colorado Water Conservation Board member, said it’s time for every tribe to have both a direct say in how the river is managed and to secure its fair ...

The Colorado River’s uncertain future is the focus of the new nature documentary “The American Southwest.” Stunningly captured by director Ben Masters with narration from model and climate justice ...

The 45th Colorado Law Conference on Natural Resources was held at the University of Colorado Boulder Wolf Law Building. (Amanda Pampuro/Courthouse News) BOULDER, Colo. (CN) — In 1858, the U.S. Army ...

Arizona and California’s chief water negotiators are coming for Colorado in a blistering public pressure campaign aimed at getting upper basin states to capitulate. In an interview with the L.A. Times ...

Satellite data reveals that the Colorado River’s groundwater has decreased dramatically since the start of the century.

Denver Water and Save the Colorado must enter mediation at the end of the month to see if a deal is possible on the mid-project challenge to the water utility’s $531 million dam raising underway at ...

CEDAREDGE, CO — Grand Mesa’s hulking south flank appeared green and brown through the windshield as a crew of state water regulators rode up its dirt roads to christen a fraught 2025 irrigation season ...