Colorado farmers scale back crops amid drought, tariffs and war
This year’s record-warm, dry spring is pummeling Colorado farmers amid multiple threats, disrupting the state’s $9 billion agricultural…
Environmental groups warn of dire impacts after Colorado River negotiators miss another deadline
By Scott Franz/KUNC Fears are growing in the Colorado River basin about the prospect of painful water cuts,…
‘This is not going to be good’
Colorado’s snowpack has fallen to record-low levels in parts of the state, sounding alarms about worsening drought conditions…
Colorado River talks stall as Arizona, California and Nevada press US West
PHOENIX (AP) — The seven Western states that depend on the Colorado River missed a deadline for the…
A warm winter has shrunk the snowpack in California’s Sierra Nevada
An extraordinarily warm and mostly sunny January has left the snowpack across California’s Sierra Nevada far smaller than…
Oil train group seeks reaffirmation of federal agency decision | Western Colorado
A Utah coalition is asking a federal agency to do little additional environmental review and reaffirm a decision…
Human emissions are helping fuel the Southwest’s epic drought
The American Southwest has been gripped by an epic drought that has lasted decades and strained the fast-growing…
California’s two-tier economy mirrors Great Britain’s ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’ past | Dan Walters | Dan-walters
Forty years ago this month, I began a 9,000-mile tour of California, gathering data, conversations and observations about…
Trump Admin Quietly Approves Massive Crude Oil Expansion Project
The Trump administration has quietly fast-tracked a massive oil expansion project that environmentalists and Democratic lawmakers warned could…