Lake Mead’s infamous bathtub ring is expected to get bigger this summer as low snowpack levels in the Rocky Mountains choke ...

Glen Canyon is revealing itself. David Brower, the first executive director of the Sierra Club and a three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, once said flooding Glen Canyon would be “America’s ...

Their probable goal: To pack the tanker truck with explosives and blowup Glen Canyon Dam. Back then, the idea of draining Lake Powell was fringe, attractive to anti-government extremists and ...

Federal water managers will repair a set of little-used pipes within Glen Canyon Dam after discovering ... River watchers in recent years. If Lake Powell falls much lower, they could be the ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

He explores the ecology and geology of a returning canyon, and what it would mean for recreation and culture. “Life After Dead Pool: Lake Powell’s Last Days and the Rebirth of the Colorado ...

The confluence is submerged under Lake Powell. After decades of drought, the reservoir created by Glen Canyon Dam has dwindled to just a third full. Now, as the San Juan River flows toward Lake ...

Then, in 1963, the Glen Canyon Dam was built to store water for human use, which backed up the Colorado River behind it to create Lake Powell. The rising waters snaked upstream, inundating the ...

Balken is the executive director of the Glen Canyon Institute, a nonprofit that considers the creation of Lake Powell an environmental mistake. He has explored and documented reemerging features ...

Now, biologists realized, neither the canyon nor its chub were safe. Scientists have long dreaded this development. As Lake Powell has shrunk over the past two decades, drained by overallocation ...

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