YUMA, AZ(AZFamily) — A new University of Arizona report is offering a rare bright spot for the drought-strained Colorado River: researchers say small, controlled releases of water into the river’s ...

With the river in freefall, federal officials plan to intervene, possibly imposing large cuts to water usage in seven states.

In a drought-hit Mexican border region at the center of growing competition with the United States for water, conservationists are working to bring a once-dying river delta back to life. On a stretch ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CIÉNEGA DE SANTA CLARA, Mexico — The rusty observation tower at the edge of this wastewater-fed marsh offers an osprey-eye view of ...

The demise of the Colorado River Delta began in 1944 when Gerardo was an infant, after the U.S. and Mexico signed a treaty allocating 1.5 million acre-feet of water south of the border. The river was ...

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Aída Navarro joins the fight to revive the Colorado River Delta — and hope is flowing again. The Colorado River Delta was once a lush wetland. After decades of damming and diversion, it dried up — ...

For more than two decades, the Colorado-born photographer Pete McBride has documented the overwhelming beauty and the gathering threats to the Colorado River. Now with the lowest snowpack on record in ...

Pitt leads the Audubon Society's Colorado River program. She has toiled for decades alongside American and Mexican conservationists to rebuild slivers of living delta from what's left of the water ...

Conservationists have cleared invasive shrubs and planted thousands of native trees in the Colorado River Delta, part of a Mexican region bordering the United States ...