Geography

This page features video footage shot with a mounted GoPro camera during a Lighthawk flight above the Green River, Colorado River and their confluence...

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.

These chemicals are everywhere. They last forever. They’re expensive to get rid of. And many Californians don’t even know they’re drinking them.

Colorado officials say ponds without water rights throughout the region are depleting the Colorado River system.

This page features aerial photos of the Colorado River entering Lake Powell in southern Utah near Hite Marina. Just south of the inoperable Hite Marina...

In Arizona, finding water in the wilderness means discovering a source of life. 

This page features photos of the headwaters of the San Juan River, near Pagosa Springs, Colorado. The San Juan River is a major tributary of the...

This page features aerial photos of Hite Marina, the Hite Crossing Bridge, and Lake Powell in southeast Utah. Lake Powell is the second-largest reservoir in...

The shrinking desert lake has long been a trouble spot beset by rising salinity and unhealthy dust blowing from its increasingly exposed bed.

A new agreement calls for Western states to leave their drinking water in the reservoir — and act as if they didn't.