There have been questions raised about whether cuts to the National Weather Service (NWS) by the Trump Administration ...

HANNA, Wyo.—For decades, TV and movie Westerns have depicted cowboys driving cattle through sagebrush country—a territory portrayed as inhospitable and dotted with low-growing, grey-green shrubs as ...

In 1860, when Colorado was still a territory and the gold rush was on, farmers who settled on the eastern plains were looking for another source of wealth—water. The state’s prairie is mostly without ...

The construction of dams on rivers worldwide has stopped the natural flow of sand and silt to the sea—resulting in coastal wetland loss and disappearing beaches—as well as preventing fish from ...

H2O RadioFireflies are nature’s flash mob—appearing briefly to dazzle and glow before dying. That makes the charismatic creatures, which are crucial to ecosystem health, challenging to study, but a ...

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Every time there’s an online outage or streaming service starts to buffer, there’s an impulse to blame a hacker...or “the cloud.” After all, web traffic is handled by satellites, right? Wrong.

The National Weather Service Role in the Central Texas Floods The flooding in Central Texas during the Fourth of July weekend killed at least 129 people including 36 children, and as of July 13 there ...

The action taken by the Trump administration “...is not only harmful, it’s illegal.” That was the reaction of Erik Olson, of the Natural Resources Defense Council to the EPA’s plan to roll back ...

Niobrara, Neb.— Ruth Janak regularly walks along the Missouri River’s edge in the small town of Niobrara, Nebraska, where she lives. She’ll pan the landscape—hoping to find any remnant of the ...

In 1948, a World War II-era bomber crashed into Lake Mead, the massive reservoir formed by Hoover Dam that straddles the Arizona-Nevada border. After several failed attempts to locate the plane, it ...

The seven states in the Colorado River Basin have been unable to agree on a plan to manage the river’s water, as long-term drought and climate change shrink available supplies. The three states in the ...