Snowmelt is replenishing depleted ecosystems and flooding communities.
Water
Plaintiffs invoke the public trust doctrine to restore the lake to a healthy level.
Failures to assess risks to Colorado River and ‘numerous NEPA violations’ in project’s impact analysis highlighted.
Tribes and environmental justice groups say management of the Delta harms traditional food systems and causes pollution.
A beleaguered Colorado waterway garners new attention.
A lawsuit could change how the Forest Service fights fires.
‘New animism’ seeks a connection to nature’s pulse.
In Micah McCarty’s art, the past and future are one, and the whales never left.
How do 2023’s atmospheric rivers compare to past extremes and what can be expected in the future?
Record-breaking rain and snow bring salvation — and destruction — to a drought-parched West.
The EPA just proposed new rules on toxic ‘forever chemicals.’
What would it look like to interpret the treaties as tribes understood them?
There’s a historic reckoning in the Colorado River Basin — and Katie Hobbs is here to play hard ball.
Agriculture beat the river into submission. It’s back.
As the Colorado River crisis worsens, an unregulated housing development faces a reckoning.
What comes next for Lake Powell?
In 2016, David Cottrell dropped $400 worth of rock on Washaway Beach to see what would happen. Now engineers are watching, too.
Fierce opposition to the project is likely.
Advocates call for healing the rift between scripture and politics.
Officially, the U.S. and Mexico share 11 groundwater basins. A new map bumps that figure up to a stunning 72.
A new research and monitoring program aims to conserve threatened but overlooked saline ecosystems.
A conversation with Natalie Koch, author of ‘Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arabia and Arizona.’
See the river as the climate changes, development continues and consequences grow with inaction.
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