For decades, the Colorado River Delta was a shadow of its former self—a barren, cracked landscape where water once flowed freely. Drained by agriculture and urban expansion, the once-mighty river had ...

A tribal nation has declared the Colorado River a legal person. An Indigenous leader says it reflects how her people have ...

The Colorado River Delta, previously dried up and barren, has come back to life thanks to the dedicated effort of conservationists and volunteers and a binational agreement between the United States ...

The personhood designation for the river is part of a broader "rights of nature" movement that aims to bestow new legal ...

Conservationists have cleared invasive shrubs and planted thousands of native trees in the Colorado River Delta, part of a Mexican region bordering the United States ...

To be sure, the river our Ancestors once knew is forever gone but that does not mean we should ignore its needs.

When seven states got together in 1922 to effectively divide up Colorado River usage, their resulting compact declared: “Nothing in this compact shall be construed as affecting the obligations of the ...

The spot where the water arrived at 3:40 on Friday — in Baja California, about five miles downstream from the San Luis Bridge — was not the river delta that at least two generations of Sonora and Baja ...

In a drought-hit Mexican border region at the center of growing competition with the United States for water, conservationists are working to bring a once-dying river delta back to life. On a stretch ...