FAR WEST TEXAS—The year was 1897. Flood waters from the Rio Grande submerged entire blocks of downtown El Paso. The New York Times described the crash of crumbling houses and the “cries of frightened ...

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 ...

Scenes From an Unfolding Climate Drama The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty How Alabama ...

Vianey Rueda received funding through CUAHSI’s Instrumentation Discovery Travel Grant, which helps researchers learn about hydrologic instrumentation. Drew Gronewold does not work for, consult, own ...

A version of this story ran in the November / December 2022 issue. A heavy monsoon season hit the Chihuahuan Desert in September. It flooded city streets in northern Mexico, overflowed some Mexican ...

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Hiking through the emerald green canopy of the bosque, or riverside cottonwood forest, near ...

IS ALMOST COMPLETELY DRY. THIS IS THE SECOND TIME IN ABOUT 40 YEARS THAT THE RIVER CHANNEL HAS DRIED. NOW, THE RIO GRANDE, THE LIFEBLOOD OF THE SOUTHWEST REGION. BONE DRY IN THE METRO TUESDAY. EXPERTS ...

Approximately 17 miles of buoy barriers will soon be installed in the placid waters of the Rio Grande — this time, in the lowermost stretches of the Rio Grande Valley. The announcement came on ...