This article is published through the Colorado River Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative supported by the Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water, and Air at Utah State University.

Farms and cities use so much of the Colorado River's water that little remains for the river's own ecosystem. Will ...

Heavy autumn rains brought relief to drought-plagued portions of the Southwest, but across the Colorado River basin, ongoing water supply concerns still linger amid tense policy negotiations and near ...

Drought and long, hot summer days are sucking Western Colorado’s rivers dry, parching farm fields and fueling the massive wildfires proliferating across the region. A chunk of northwestern Colorado in ...

As historic drought conditions on the Western Slope fuel another dangerous wildfire season, a new paper from researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder warns that human-caused climate change is ...

Most of the Intermountain West is in a drought, with nearly 20 percent of the region stuck in the most severe, driest conditions, according to a Tuesday presentation from Colorado state climatologist ...

The river system provides water to 40 million people. The Colorado River, one of the most important river systems in the country, is drying up at an alarming rate. The issues surrounding depleting ...

DENVER – Drought conditions continue to improve in the eastern half of Colorado, as one-third of the state is drought-free as of this week. But little has changed on the drought-stricken Western Slope ...

If there’s a positive side to the biblical floods that have swamped parts of Colorado over the past week, it’s that this particular weather disaster will help alleviate another weather disaster the ...

Editor's note: This article is published through the Colorado River Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative supported by the Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water, and Air at Utah ...