Colorado River

If it's perfectly safe to drink purified wastewater, why aren't drought-plagued states drinking more of it?

Mexico plans to deliver water to farmers in drought-stricken Texas, a day after President Donald Trump threatened tariffs and sanctions for not providing water from the Rio Grande River under a 1944 treaty.

President Trump has threatened to slap new tariffs on Mexico for failing to deliver water under a decades-old treaty. But climate change has decimated river flows.

Harvest summer flavors in Colorado's Grand Valley

Fossils are providing more and more clues about how dinosaurs attracted one another and reproduced, which contributed to their remarkable ability to populate much of the Earth

Other cities are expected to soon follow.

The 61-year-old actor's career spans decades (yes, far beyond Lucius Malfoy), but now he's shining as high-strung patriarch Tim Ratliff.

"This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter here."While President Donald Trump has issued a flurry of far-reaching decrees during his first week in office, one relatively niche issue has received a disproportionate share of the president's ire and attention: ...

LOS ANGELES — President Joe Biden is establishing two new national monuments in California that will honor Native American tribes, the White House confirmed Tuesday, as Biden seeks to conserve at least 30% of U.S. lands and waters by 2030 through his "America the Beautiful" initiative. Proclamations set to be

Yuma County, Arizona, is known as the "Winter Salad Bowl Capital." From lettuce to cilantro to broccoli, the region produces almost all the leafy green vegetables consumed in the U.S. during winter months. Farmers there rely on the nearby Colorado River and as the West contends with drought and a changing climate, they've had to adapt. Stephanie Sy reports.

On Dec. 15, 1973, the American Psychiatric Association reversed its longstanding position and declared that being gay isn't a mental illness.

But it's far from a done deal.

Original associate producer weighs in on Dauntless patch controversy

It was 1906 when U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt designated the first national monument — Devils Tower in Wyoming

In 2026, legal agreements that apportion the Colorado River will expire.

Federal officials release a proposal outlining options for new, long-term rules for managing chronic water shortages from the overtapped Colorado River.

Entire continents, even in the tropics, seem to have been under sheets of ice.

One choice can save water—and help farmers prosper.