An 1869 expedition led by John Wesley Powell sailed out of the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River in the first official ...

Fly over the striking desert waters of Lake Powell, where red rock canyons meet vivid blue water in a surreal landscape ...

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 ...

What goes up must come down — perhaps even for things as massive as Lake Powell. That’s the topic of the Glen Canyon Institute’s March 15 event, “Glen Canyon Rises.” Featuring artists ...

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 ...

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 ...