The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’...

Perkins canal drawing showing the Colorado portion, courtesy Nebraska Department of Natural Resources. Here’s the release from Governor Polis’ office (Lawrence Pacheco and Shelby Wieman…

Overview of the 18 CAMELS HUC2 basins (or zone) across CONUS. Click the link to access the article on the AGU website (Sadegh Sadeghi Tabas, Vidya Samadi, Catherine Wilson, Biswa Bhattacharya). Her…

Lakes Mead and Powell, the largest reservoirs on the Colorado River, do not just store water. Their dams, Hoover and Glen Canyon, also generate electricity. This hydropower drives irrigation pumps and fuels industries. It keeps the lights on for customers on tribal lands, in the basin’s largest cities, and in sleepy desert towns. But less of it is being generated these days.

Five of Earth’s vital systems are close to a point of irreversible change, warns a new report released by a global network of scientists ahead of the upcoming U.N. climate change conference in…

A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

Photo credit: Upper Colorado River Commission Click the link to read the release on the Upper Colorado River Commission website: October 8, 2025 As the Upper Division States negotiate ways to equit…

Colorado Drought Monitor map October 7, 2025. Here’s the release from the Colorado Water Trust (Kate Ryan and Blake Mamich): October 7, 2025 Colorado’s rivers are running on empty as drought …

In late May, as the outside temperature approached 100 degrees, Arizona’s top water policy officials gathered in an air-conditioned Phoenix conference room. Their purpose that day was to decide whether the state should extend a longstanding drought emergency declaration. The standard indicators – minimal precipitation, low reservoirs, the second-hottest 12-month period on record – were not encouraging. Halfway through the 90-minute meeting, gallows humor lightened the mood.

River Notes from Labyrinth Canyon + Dizzying Desert Notes