As Rio Grande Shrinks, El Paso Plans for Uncertain Water Future
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With a megadrought persisting in the Southwest, El Paso and other cities on the Rio Grande are scrambling to find alternative…
With a megadrought persisting in the Southwest, El Paso and other cities on the Rio Grande are scrambling to find alternative…
As the megadrought continues, we are seeing the stories of falling water levels in the Colorado River, with Lake Mead and Lake…
There's a good chance the weather-disrupting phenomenon will persist for a rare third year, possibly exacerbating already…
Climate scientists reconsider the meaning and implications of drought in light of a changing…
Huge decisions will be made in the next few years about who gets water from the shrinking Colorado River. Basin tribes are…
by Daniel Craig McCool, University of Utah The Colorado River is a vital lifeline for the arid U.S. Southwest. It supplies…
**Este artículo se puede encontrar en español** On October 6, 2021, Audubon's Colorado River Program Director gave the…
In August, 2021, for the first time ever, the federal government declared a water shortage in the Colorado River basin. While…
Western water rights reflect a short and stable climate history, but that period of stability is ending. Looming climate change…
Percy Deal lives in Black Mesa, a bowl-shaped region in northeastern Arizona that’s part of the Navajo and Hopi reservations.
The shrinking Colorado River is becoming an urgent water crisis for millions of people in the West. “The question is, how…
The shrinking Colorado River is becoming an urgent water crisis for millions of people in the West. “The question is, how…
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Had the…
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Charismatic is hardly the best word to describe the humpback chub, a fish with a frowny eel face jammed onto a sportfish body…
This piece was originally published in High Country News and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. The Colorado…
For the first time in history, low water levels on the Colorado River have forced Arizona, Nevada, and Mexico to cut back the…
Imagine this grim scenario: The drought that has plagued the Colorado River over the past two decades continues into 2021. The…
The Colorado River flows through seven U.S. states and northern Mexico, before discharging into the Gulf of California. Along…
With the Southwest locked in a 19-year drought and climate change making the region increasingly drier, water managers and…
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Winter…
Winter descended early on Colorado this year, bringing snow to the state’s tallest peaks days after Labor Day. But dry…
The dry delta of the Colorado River. Photo: Erik Rochner/National…
Thanks in large measure to warming temperatures, the average snowpack in U.S. western states has dropped by 15 to 30 percent…
Politics play an important role in determining the fate of renewable energy in particular places, but so does economics. The…
Drought and climate change have had serious impact on the Colarado river.
This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
A new study suggests that Colorado River flows have already declined due to rising global temperatures and are likely to…
A changing climate, and new energy sources
Here are two more weeks of daily climate change impacts stories, as part of my #365climateimpacts project. I didn’t have to go…
One of the longest US waterways, the Colorado River, has lost 20% of its flow since the year 2000, with the changing climate…
Warming in the 21stcentury reduced Colorado River flows by at least 0.5 million acre-feet, about the amount of water used by 2…
Water woes ahead for the…
By John Fleck19 February 2017 (inkstain) – A warming climate is already reducing the flow in the Colorado River, and the…