Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sun rises over Lake Powell in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area on July 10, 2025, in Page, Arizona. Lake Powell, a critical ...

Scientists have uncovered the moment the Colorado River was “born,” revealing how it once pooled in a vast lake before ...

A new geological study sheds light on a previously hidden phase of the Colorado River’s history. Geologists have uncovered ...

Experts weigh in on what we learned during the region’s worst drought on record, and how those lessons might help us this ...

Scientists have known that the Colorado River has existed in western Colorado for 11 ...

The Colorado River is among the most famous, significant, and culturally iconic bodies of water in the United States. But did you know that this enormous river once disappeared from the geological ...

The Colorado River – which did not always flow through the Grand Canyon region – may have begun to carve its path through it after an ancient lake overflowed roughly 5.6 million years ago, say ...

Western Slope water managers are scrambling to soften the blow from the effects of one of the worst snow-drought years on ...

An aerial photograph of the end of the Colorado River in Mexico in October 2025. As a Coloradan who grew up skiing, I am alarmed at this year’s lack of snow. But more alarming to me than the missing ...

With the deadline to reach a water usage agreement looming, leaders from the seven Colorado River Basin states expressed cautious optimism that their “historic” meeting in Washington, D.C., will spur ...