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 State University.

The Echimamish River in Manitoba is a rare natural phenomenon, flowing in two directions from a central pond to link the ...

The Spokane River ran low most of June. If you care about the river, this should alarm you. At the beginning of the month, the river’s flow was well below its legally required minimum – by nearly a ...

Streamflows on the Western Slope have plummeted over the last month, sending water managers scrambling to boost flows for endangered fish and ranking it among the driest years in recent history.

Does the Amazon River Flow Backward? It’s a question that often sparks curiosity among explorers, scientists, and anyone fascinated by the mysteries of our planet. Although most major rivers on Earth ...

Rivers typically avoid massive mountain ranges–and they flow downhill, as gravity pulls water downward. However, the Green River in the U.S. state of Utah seems, in some sections, to do the opposite: ...

The diversion of water for a Southern California Edison hydroelectric plant reduces the flow of the Kern River for nearly 16 miles. A group of boaters protested by carrying a raft along this ...

Upper and middle Snake River flow augmentation is expected to be slightly lower overall. Flow augmentation is required annually under a 2008 biological opinion from National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

What used to be a calm stretch of the Yampa River near Craig, Colorado, now boasts a new set of rollicking whitewater rapids. They’re not the result of some new rockslide. The boulders in these rapids ...

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 ...