By Daniel Craig McCool
The Conversation
The Colorado River is a vital lifeline for the arid U.S. Southwest. It supplies water to seven states, Mexico, 29 Indian reservations and millions of acres of irrigated farmland. The river and its tributaries support 16 million jobs and provi...
By David A. Lieb
The Associated Press
JEFFERSON CITY, MO. » States will soon be flooded with federal money to address a pent-up need to repair, improve or remove thousands of aging dams across the U.S., including some that could inundate towns or neighborhoods if they fail.
The roughly $3...
By Mead Gruver
The Associated Press
SARATOGA, WYO. » The North Platte River in southern Wyoming has been so low in places lately that a toddler could easily wade across and thick mats of olive-green algae grow in the lazy current.
Just more than two years ago, workers stack...
**Este artículo se puede encontrar en español**Years of reduced inflows, along with drought and a warming climate, have caused the Sea to shrink, exposing dry lakebed -- or playa -- that sends clouds of irritating dust towards surrounding communities, causing increased rates of respir...
By Zach Montague,© The New York Times Co.
As Americans continue to weather the pandemic, the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and spending bill passed by the federal government in December brought an unexpected and lasting gift: a new national park.
The 5,593-page spending package included a raft ...
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ALBUQUERQUE By Susan Montoya Bryan The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE»Federal managers are warning that if hot and dry conditions persist, it’s possible that the stretch of the Rio Grande flowing through Albuquerque could dry up this fall....
The guidelines Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, California, Utah, Wyoming and Nevada use and a drought contingency plan will expire in 2026. By Felicia Fonseca, The Associated Press, from The Denver Post eEdition, June 28th, 2020
FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ.» Arizona is getting a jump start on what will be ...
Shared from the 3/22/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Nina Burleigh © The New York Times Co.
For years, whenever I found myself in Miami with an afternoon to spare, I sneaked off west to where a road abruptly separates the urban grid from the Everglades. Depending on time, I drove as deep int...
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EPA, ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS By Ellen Knickmeyer The Associated Press WASHINGTON» The Trump administration on Thursday ended federal protection for many of the nation’s millions of miles of streams, arroyos and wetlands, a sweep...
Shared from the 12/4/2019 The Denver Post eEdition By Allen G. Breed
The Associated Press
FLAMINGO, FLA.»
Grabbing a clump of vegetation to steady herself, Tiffany Troxler gingerly slides her feet along the makeshift boardwalk as she ventures out into the marsh. The boards sag, dipping her up...
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“YOU CAN’T REALLY BEAT A POND”By Matthew Brown and James Brooks The Associated Press HINDOLVESTON, ENGLAND» The ghosts are all around the gently rolling farmlands of eastern England. But you have to know where to look. These are not the kind of pha...
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By Felicia FonsecaThe Associated Press
FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ.» Snow piled up in the mountains across the West last winter, leaving enough to thrill skiers into the summer, swelling rivers and streams when it melted, and largely making wildfire r...
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“Elevated threat risk”
Drones, supercomputers and sonar deployed against floods
By Adrian Sainz and Jeff Martin
The Associated Press
Adrian Sainz, Associated Press file
MEMPHIS, TENN.»An arsenal of new technology is being put to the t...
By Jack Lessenberry
Few people know Lake Erie as well as Jeffery Reutter, the recently retired director of the Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Laboratory on the lake.
He’s shown me a picture of his hand covered with toxic algae when he was a graduate student in 1971 — and that same hand covered again n...
The Environmental Protection Agency took responsibility Friday for inadvertently polluting a Colorado river with 1 million gallons of toxic orange wastewater while trying to clean up an abandoned gold mine.
The spill occurred Wednesday morning at a long-closed Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colo., ...
A team of US regulators investigating contamination at a Colorado goldmine accidentally released a million gallons (3.8 million liters) of orange-hued waste water containing sediment and metals into a local river system, the Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday.
The waste wate...
As water shortages grip California and the seven state Colorado River basin, many users feel no pain, while some face a complete curtailment. That’s because the water management system is not designed to be either efficient or equitable but consistent and predictable. And it is.
As is typ...
EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers finalized the Clean Water Rule to clearly protect the streams and wetlands that form the foundation of the nation’s water resources. Protection for many of the nation’s streams and wetlands has been confusing, complex, and time-consuming as the result of Supr...
By Chen Liwei
For World Wetlands Day on February 2, I traveled from Beijing down to Hangzhou to attend a seminar held by the Wetland Management Office of the State Forestry Administration, a partner of the Paulson Institute. We are working together to analyze the importance of coastal wetlands in C...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is awarding $1 million in grants to strengthen the capacity of states and tribes to protect and restore wetlands. The National Wetland Program Development Grants provide interstate agencies, intertribal consortia, and non-profit organizatio...
