drought

It's not clear yet how the money would be distributed among several states in a river basin where political fights and an impasse over how to share water long term have persisted even during historic drought.

Widespread drought and fears of a power crisis is forcing the Interior Department to start sending billions of gallons of water from Flaming Gorge Reservoir downstream to prop up Lake Powell.

Cody Moser with the federal Colorado Basin River Forecast Center said in a monthly briefing Tuesday that just 1.4 million acre feet of Colorado River water is expected to reach Lake Powell through July. That's less than a quarter of what's considered normal.

Everyone – from experienced birders to novices – are invited to help scientists better understand how bird populations are declining worldwide.

On the eve of the high-stakes summit, negotiators from both the upper and lower river basins are not sounding confident they can reach an agreement with less than three weeks to go before a Feb. 14 deadline.

Record low snowpack in the Upper Colorado River Basin is raising serious concern for downstream users – like New Mexico.

Future climate modeling predicts New Mexico will have far less water in the coming decades, which will likely shift the migratory patterns of large birds to the state – including the beloved sandhill crane and Ross’s goose.

Amid a prolonged megadrought, the Bureau of Reclamation is predicting that Lake Powell may drop close to a “dead pool." But, water managers won’t let that happen. They’ll first tap into reservoirs further upstream – including in New Mexico.

A new study from Los Alamos National Laboratory shows that New Mexico’s beloved piñon pine trees may be more flexible in how they handle extreme drought than scientists once thought.

A warming climate — fueled in part by the state’s oil and gas production — has parched rivers and turned forests to tinder.