The Colorado River in the Grand Canyon is the nation’s most threatened river in 2023, the nonprofit advocacy group American Rivers declared in an annual report released Tuesday.. It’s the ...

Since Glen Canyon Dam's completion in 1963, the water flowing into the Grand Canyon has carried less sediment, much of the river's sand and other materials trapped behind the dam.

At Mile 0 of the Grand Canyon, the river is running at around 7,000 cubic feet per second, rising toward 9,000 — not the lowest flows on record, but far from the highest. Cubic feet per second ...

The Colorado River Is Drying Up: How This Impacts the Grand Canyon’s Future The Colorado River runs roughly 1,450 miles in its entirety, originating in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park ...

Federal operators of the Glen Canyon Dam atop the Grand Canyon opened jets to begin this surge before sunrise Monday, sending what they described as “a pulse” of water whooshing through… ...

The plan was to flood the canyon for 60 hours, with a peak flow of 40,400 cubic feet per ... which lives in a stretch of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon and in five other locations upriver ...

A 59-year-old Colorado man, Patrick Horton, was found dead Sunday in the Grand Canyon while on a group river trip, marking the seventh fatality in the national park since July 31.

And while the 1992 Grand Canyon Protection Act mandates river flows not go below 5,000 cfs, the law also states that requirement can be waived in the event of “hydrologic extremes or power ...

Grand Canyon National Park — A solo backpacker has been found dead near a rugged and remote trail along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park, authorities in Arizona said Thursday.

A Colorado man on a river trip to the Grand Canyon was found dead over the weekend, officials said Monday, in what appears to be the seventh death at the park since July 31.

Smallmouth bass have plagued the upper Colorado River Basin for decades, impacting numerous native fish species, but were only detected downstream of the Glen Canyon Dam in 2022.