Geography

The State of Colorado has activated the municipal portion of its emergency drought plan for only the second time in history as several cities say they need to prepare for what is almost certainly going to be a dangerously dry 2021.

The town of Estancia and the ICE facility are trucking in water until a new well is drilled.

A group of ranchers is helping scientists learn more about what happens to pastures that receive less irrigation water.

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.

Pitkin County took the final step in a years-long effort to get more water into the often water-short upper Roaring Fork River.

Despite emergency releases from upper basin reservoirs to prop up Lake Powell, levels are still projected to dip below a critical threshold.

Fires in the West burn so intensely that they reshape forests, shift tree species and turn calm waterways into devastating mudflows.

This page features photos of Parker Dam, located along the Colorado River on the Arizona-California border.   Built between 1934 and 1938 by the Bureau...

Feds’ new plan doesn’t resolve crop-threatening water shortage and likely will end up in court, two professors reckon.

This page features drone-captured photos and video of Westwater, a small Navajo community next to Blanding, Utah, that recently got electricity and is still...