This is a grim year for runoff. Brad Udall ran through a striking series of graphs of the current state of the Colorado River. The Fleck Blog posted them, along with accompanying commentary.

During a live broadcast on the Today show, a popular national TV program, Babbitt opened valves to unleash an unprecedented experimental flood into the Grand Canyon just downstream. As onlookers applauded, water gushed from gaping outlet pipes. Babbitt ca...

Hidden with Lake Powell's ever-changing shorelines are countless fingers running up side canyons where flat water terminates at mucky sediments, deposited after the lake started filling behind Glen Canyon Dam. As the lake's levels have fallen under the we...