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 ...

For decades, so much water has been diverted to supply farms and cities that the Colorado River has seldom met the sea and much of its delta in Mexico has ... And right now, this is an historic ...

This episode explores the mystery of the vanishing Colorado River Delta. Once a lifeline for the American Southwest, it's now a shadow of ... Gulf of California in Mexico. At least that's how ...

Reservoirs along the river ... delta in Mexico and into the Gulf of California. That is, it did so for six million years. Then, beginning in the 1920s, Western states began divvying up the ...

It’s the Colorado River Delta, where the river once ... future of the river before the U.S. and Mexico finalize an agreement. De la Parra, who now chairs the board of the nonprofit group ...

The Colorado River is in trouble in ways that the white settlers who claimed it in the 1800s, and the powerful government and industrial leaders who later negotiated rights over it in the early ...

Conservationists have cleared invasive shrubs and planted thousands of native trees in the Colorado River Delta, part of a Mexican ... By the time it crosses into Mexico most of its water has ...

“The river was nowhere ... Aldo Leopold of the Colorado river delta, the region where waters originating in the Rocky Mountains meander into the Gulf of California in Mexico.

The Colorado River Delta has become a dusty stretch of desert. Mexico diverts its share of the river from Morelos Dam to sustain desert cities and the farmlands of the Mexicali Valley.

It is the fruit of two decades of work by environmentalists along the lower part of the river from the U.S.-Mexico border ... director of the Colorado River Delta program at the Sonoran Institute ...