ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—On a late July morning, a snapping turtle, about 18 inches in length, sat solemnly in a dry riverbed where the Rio Grande normally flows here. The aquatic reptile was one of few ...

The Rio Grande is one of the longest rivers in North America, running some 1,900 miles from the Colorado Rockies southeast to the Gulf of Mexico. It provides fresh water for seven U.S. and Mexican ...

Across the West, we have recently endured the winter that wasn’t. Here on the Western Slope, we worry about the diminishing Colorado River, but we also need to look at rivers on the other side of the ...

The Bureau of Reclamation warns that persistent drought and early snowmelt could pose challenges for the Rio Grande. Water managers on the Rio Grande are bracing for more drought after the earliest ...

From its headwaters in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado’s Southern Rockies, the Rio Grande makes its way across New Mexico and into Texas, coursing through some of the country’s farthest flung ...

PHOENIX — A national water study, in partnership with Northern Arizona University, has found the Rio Grande River is potentially at risk of a water shortage with just two more dry winters. Ben Ruddell ...

Photograph of the 1896 heavyweight prize fight in boxing, taken from the escarpment above the bed of the Rio Grande River where the fight was staged. (Courtesy Jesse Vogler) And it is indeed this ...