Geography

This page in our free multimedia library features aerial photos of the Rio Grande and Cochiti Dam and Lake in New Mexico. This portion of the flight covers the area...

Colorado Stone Quarries must rehabilitate streams they illegally diverted in 2018, but some say even more needs to be done.

You’ve heard the news: Farmers and ranchers use roughly 80% of the water in Colorado and much of the American West. So doesn’t it make sense that if growers and...

Amid one of the hottest summers on record for Colorado, Dillon Reservoir is 94% full, nearly 5 feet below its capacity. This level of drought has been manageable this year for Denver Water partly because of the 2018-19 winter.

Colorado voters narrowly approved Proposition DD and created a new sports-betting tax whose proceeds will help fund water projects across the state.

This page features photos of Flaming Gorge Reservoir, which impounds the Green River in Wyoming and Utah. The Green River is the most significant tributary of the Colorado River. Flaming...

Snowpack in Colorado is melting earlier than expected due to an increase in dust storm severity.

New Mexico once again owes Texas a massive water debt, so water managers are considering resurrecting the original purpose of the channel.

It has been a rough year for the Shoshone hydropower plant in Glenwood Canyon. First, ice jammed the plant’s spillway; then a wildfire burned down its transmission lines.

This page features aerial and ground-based photos of St. George, Utah and the Virgin River outside of Hurricane, Utah. St. George in a city in southwestern Utah on the Arizona...