Editor’s note: This article is published through the Colorado River Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative supported by the Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water, and Air at Utah ...

Visitors to Bryce Canyon National Park and Lake Powell may breathe in smokey air this week as nearby wildfires spread. The France Canyon Fire west of Bryce Canyon National Park has grown to 6,590 ...

Lake Powell, an iconic centerpiece of the Colorado River Basin and the second-largest reservoir in the United States, is facing an escalating crisis as decades of sediment buildup threaten its future.

I’ll go out on a limb to say Lake Powell is the greatest lake in the entire world. It’s basically a flooded Grand Canyon that you can “hike” by boat. Thanks to its 2,000 miles of shoreline, protected ...

Lake Powell is a striking body of water surrounded by cliffs and structures of rusty, layered, Jurassic-age Navajo Sandstone, studded with minuscule quartz crystals that glimmer when the desert sun ...

The Colorado River drought has hit Lake Powell hard, with water levels dropping to record lows in the past few years. But this environmental crisis is revealing an unexpected ecological benefit—the ...

What goes up must come down — perhaps even for things as massive as Lake Powell. That’s the topic of the Glen Canyon Institute’s March 15 event, “Glen Canyon Rises.” Featuring artists, musicians and ...

Federal officials are quietly warning that one of the country’s most important dams is approaching a tipping point not seen ...

Glen Canyon Dam, which regulates releases from Lake Powell on the Colorado River, is operating with shrinking margins as declining reservoir levels push engineers to plan around physical constraints ...

The federal government's alternatives for the Colorado River came out Friday morning, possibly setting the agenda for ...