Pexels The Colorado River has long been the lifeblood of the American Southwest, winding through seven states and supporting ...

Every winter, snow piles up across the mountains of Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, building the frozen reservoir that feeds the Colorado River and supplies water to roughly 40 million people in seven ...

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 ...

Negotiators are looking at a different way to measure the amount of water in the river, providing a framework for a possible deal on reducing withdrawals. In the contentious talks over how states will ...

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 ...

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 ...