Issues

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

Two proposed pumped water storage projects that could expand Colorado’s ability to store renewable energy are moving forward.

A repeat of dry conditions in 2021 is making Colorado’s continuing drought across swaths of the state’s Western Slope even more devastating.

Environmental correspondent Laura Paskus revisits the Gold King Mine spill and the destructive impact of the toxic orange plume that went flowing down the Animas and San Juan rivers five years ago.

Forty years after the Holy Cross Wilderness Area was created, an effort to explore tapping its water has generated more than 500 public comments.

Scientist Adrienne Marshall explains why these extreme snow years are expected to decline in our warming world.

A farmer and environmentalist formed an unlikely partnership to improve fish habitat in the San Luis Valley.

Use this interactive map to browse photos and videos taken in wintertime from our expanding collection of free-to-use media captured by drones, planes and ground-based photographers.

The Colorado River has been dammed, diverted, and slowed by reservoirs, strangling the life out of a once-thriving ecosystem. But in the U.S. and Mexico, efforts are underway to revive sections of the river and restore vital riparian habitat for native plants, fish, and wildlife.

Residents of Colorado's Crystal River valley are reviving efforts to protect the upper portion of the river through a federal designation.