Researchers are using satellites to track how much water is not just in the river, but held in nearby snow and soil. That ...

Colorado River experts reviewed water usage rates and found that a dry winter will 'crash' reservoirs. A wet one will only ...

Even a huge snowpack during the coming winter would only give the river basin states less than two years of storage before ...

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The lost Colorado River may have pooled in an ancient lake before helping carve the Grand Canyon, shedding light on a ...

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 ...

BOULDER, Colorado — If the Colorado River Basin experiences another dry winter, there will be an "outcome with devastating consequences," a new study warns. It is likely that storage in Lake Powell ...

Lacking agreement from the seven Colorado River states, federal managers of the critical waterway are planning to implement a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Extended warm weather across the Colorado River basin may reduce the amount of water delivered during the spring runoff to just a third of normal, according ...

The federal government has not yet done so, but the prospect of such an action is not good news for the nearly 40 million people who depend on the Colorado River for water, energy, agriculture and ...