When rivers rise in the spring, you probably think it is from the most recent snow and rain. A new study says that is probably not true.

Streamflow drought—when substantially less water than usual moves through rivers—can seriously disrupt the welfare of nearby ...

A study reveals that the lack of spring rains largely explains the water deficit in the Colorado River since 2000.

The Big Wood River has undergone some big changes in recent years, including a big overall drop in average stream flows and ...

Woodson, D., Rajagopalan, B., Baker, S., Smith, R., Prairie, J., Towler, E., Ge, M. & Zagona, E. (2021). "Stochastic Decadal Projections of Colorado River Streamflow ...

The Kachess River restoration project improved streamflow, habitat conditions, and ecosystem function on about one mile of ...

Over the past 25 years, the Northeast has experienced the largest increase in extreme precipitation nationally. Prior research has shown that the amount of extreme precipitation— rain or snow that ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week’s contribution is from Blaine McCleskey, research chemist ...

Solomon Tassew Erkyihun, PhD thesis Edie Zagona and Balaji Rajagopalan, principal investigators Ken Nowak and Jim Prairie, Bureau of Reclamation researchers Effective water resources planning and ...

With the Colorado River flowing about one sixth of normal in Palisade, a local group is working to purchase water from Ruedi Reservoir near Basalt to shore up the streamflow. The river was flowing ...

BOISE — The Department of Water Resources’ Water Supply Committee on Friday said its streamflow forecast for the Boise River Basin was the lowest in the last five years, mirroring conditions from 2015 ...