For decades, the Colorado River Delta was a shadow of its former self—a barren, cracked landscape where water once flowed freely. Drained by agriculture and urban expansion, the once-mighty river had ...

This episode explores the mystery of the vanishing Colorado River Delta. Once a lifeline for the American Southwest, it's now a shadow of its former self. What happened? Outdated water laws?

But it wasn’t always this way. It’s the Colorado River Delta, where the river once met the Pacific Ocean and created a sprawling network of forests and wetlands. For decades, though ...

Collectively, these measurements offer a detailed map of the character and contents of Colorado River water as it travels from Rocky Mountain National Park to the canyonlands. “What we’re trying to do ...

A brief history of the Salton Sea The Salton Sea is part of the massive Colorado River delta. For millennia ... that project by 750 acres. See a map of completed and ongoing Salton Sea restoration ...

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"We could wipe all of the cities off the map that are using Colorado River water, and we would just barely be balancing the water budget," says Brian Richter, lead author of the study. That means ...

Snowpack across Colorado ranges from close to normal levels near the Colorado River headwaters ... 31% of normal — the lowest in the state. A map from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's ...

“We could wipe all of the cities off the map that are using Colorado River water, and we would just barely be balancing the water budget,” said Brian Richter, lead author of the stud ...

Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian photographer known for his large-format images of natural environments altered by industry. His lens captures rivers that run fluorescent, mountains of detritus, and ...

conservationists are working to bring a once-dying river delta back to life. On a stretch of the Colorado River, which on the Mexican side of the frontier is mostly a dry riverbed, native ...