Trump wants to reclaim the Panama Canal. He’d be taking on a waterway facing crisis
Frequent droughts have pushed authorities to pursue a controversial plan to dam a river to save the waterway — an act that ...
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‘MAGA’ voters in the West still support federal management of public lands, poll finds
Conservation in the West Poll also found strong support to maintain national monument designations and that climate change is ...
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Tracing cataclysmic floods and geologist J Harlen Bretz’s footsteps across the Pacific Northwest
For many people, the "King" Columbia River begins and ends with the Grand Coulee Dam, the iconic 1930s project that produces ...
Colorado River negotiators express urgency, uncertainty as deadline nears
Lead negotiators from the Colorado River’s Upper Basin states expressed a dual sense of uncertainty and urgency on Tuesday, ...
As a meteorologist, I couldn’t do my job without maps and names of places. One stands out.
Alonso Álvarez de Pineda made the first map labeling those waters as the Gulf of Mexico in 1519. Before that, you likely ...
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Cascading Effects: Will China’s New Dam Create A Himalayan Rift?
Chinese hydroelectric power plans in Tibet threaten to destabilize the Himalayan region’s ecology and politics.
Pressure builds on Army Corps to produce years-late reports on Willamette River Basin dams
Last June, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which operates a series of dams in Oregon's Willamette River Basin, missed a deadline set by Congress to produce a report on how the dams are affecting ...
Dam removal deal could create longest free-flowing California river
The push to remove two dams on Northern California’s Eel River, making it the longest free-flowing river in the state, has ...