The existing plans and commitments to reduce water use don’t add up to even half of the savings that are needed to keep the river flowing.
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Native religions are tied to living landscapes, not points on a map. A scholar of Indigenous studies explains why reducing the protected area has profound religious and cultural consequences.
They’re called rock glaciers, and they might not look like much, but they’ll continue to provide meltwater after the world’s iconic white glaciers are gone.
Streamflows the West relies on for drinking water and farms used to follow a fairly predictable arc as winter snow melted. Rising temperatures are changing that.
US Olympic skiers and scientists explain the sharp differences between natural snow and machine-made snow, from the science to the rising risk of crashes.
Deep beneath the Rockies, a huge slab of crust ‘dripped’ into the mantle. It changed America forever.
Here’s what snow forecasters are watching, and why skiers and other snow lovers shouldn’t lose hope.
Long-standing water-use agreements allocate more water than the river and its basin actually contain, forcing users to cut back and face future shortages as well.
The Supreme Court has ruled that executing the innocent does not violate the Constitution, but some states allow people convicted of crimes to bring actual innocence claims.
One way to prevent the destruction wrought by a devastating earthquake – like the one that hit Morocco in September 2023 – is to construct resilient homes and buildings.
The relationship between faith, politics and LGBTQ rights is more complicated than it can appear at first glance.
Lake Powell’s existential crisis is a unique opportunity to save a treasured landscape.
Latina women hold few top leadership positions in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but their contributions help keep congregations going.
Many Republicans have wrestled with whether to embrace Donald Trump and his brash political style. Latter-day Saints are an especially telling example.
The Utah holiday is a reflection of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ slowly changing identity, a historian of Mormonism and migration writes.
Agreements negotiated a century ago to share water on Western rivers among states are showing their age in a time of water scarcity.
These 47,000 aspen trees are genetically identical clones with shared roots.
The Biden administration is restoring full protection to three national monuments that President Trump sought to cut down drastically.
A long-expected federal drought declaration underlines how serious the Colorado River water shortage has become for Western states.
The Supreme Court recently dealt defeat to Florida in its 20-year legal battle with Georgia over river water. Other interstate water contests loom, but there are no sure winners in these lawsuits.
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Director of the Kyl Center for Water Policy, ASU Morrison Institute for Public Policy, Arizona State University
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Professor of Policy and Practice, UCLA School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor of Law, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Political Science, Utica University
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Regents Professor Emeritus and Morris K. Udall Professor of Law & Public Policy Emeritus, University of Arizona
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Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
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Assistant Professor of Law, Louisiana State University
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Director, School of Public Affairs, and Professor of Public Administration, Harrisburg campus, Penn State
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Assistant Professor of Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
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Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Harrisburg campus, Penn State
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Executive Director, American Indian Policy Institute, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Professor of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University
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Professor of Zoology, Bangor University
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Cecil D. Andrus Endowed Chair for Environment and Public Lands and University Distinguished Professor, Boise State University