Seasonal river cleanups could be a new community conservation tradition in Tucson
The Santa Cruz River may be dry but it has come alive with people who are making a seasonal river cleanup a community conservation tradition in Tucson.
Climate change is increasing stress on thousands of aging dams across the US
A dam’s design can affect its ability to withstand overtopping and resist failure.
Pitkin County aims to bring back beavers
Pitkin County is making beavers a top priority, funding measures that may eventually restore North America’s largest rodent to the Roaring Fork watershed.
The fun is back at Blue Mesa and other reservoirs, as heavy winter snows...
Southwestern Colorado’s Blue Mesa Reservoir, drained by years of drought and a major release of water designed to aid a plummeting Lake Powell, is experiencing a rebirth this summer.
Scientists Warned of a Salton Sea Disaster. No One Listened.
California’s Salton Sea offers a tableau of dead wildlife, toxic dust, and neglect. It was long in the making.
Photos and videos: Rio Chama rafting, May 2023
This page features photos and videos from a wilderness rafting trip on the Rio Chama in northern New Mexico.
The Rio Chama is a major tributary of the Rio Grande...
3M offers $10.3B settlement over PFAS contamination in water systems – now, how do...
PFAS chemicals seemed like a good idea at first. Then tests started detecting PFAS in people’s blood.
How well-managed dams and smart forecasting can limit flooding as extreme storms become more...
Here’s what reservoir managers think about during storms, and how efforts to improve forecasting may soon be able to reduce flood damage
Once ‘paradise,’ parched Colorado valley grapples with arsenic in water
Decades of climate change-driven drought, combined with the overpumping of aquifers, is making the valley desperately dry — and appears to be intensifying the levels of heavy metals in drinking water.
Renegade rancher
40 million people rely on the Colorado River system for water and power. But after 20 years of drought, the river basin is running low. For the Water Desk,...