On the heels of a bomb cyclone that hit Washington, Northern California, and Oregon, the area will be slammed again by an ...

The Colorado River used to flow all the way to the Pacific Ocean. But climate change and steady demand mean that it dries up ...

In The Float Test (Mariner, Apr. 2025), Lynn Steger Strong, who grew up in Florida, weaves the region’s suffocating heat and ...

We in Colorado are lucky. Our state has 44 congressionally designated wilderness areas covering over 3.7 million acres, ...

A third day of an atmospheric river storm has inundated Northern California and the Bay Area, with the storm spreading from ...

With an environmental impact report pending, the seven states who use Colorado River water have been pitted against each ...

Federal officials released a range of scenarios on Nov 20 that could be used to manage the over-allocated and shrinking ...

The storm arrived in the Pacific Northwest earlier this week, killing two people and knocking out power to hundreds of ...

Huge contributions could be required from northern states under some scenarios, which they have balked at for months.

In recent years, "atmospheric river" has become used much more frequently in scientific papers and in media coverage.

After flood waters from heavy rainstorms deluged two small farmworker towns in January 2023, California set aside $20 million ...

Federal officials have released a proposal outlining options for new, long-term rules to deal with chronic water shortages on ...