Last month, the seven Upper and Lower Basin states failed to come up with new terms defining how the Colorado River is to be ...

As western water leaders prepare to gather in Las Vegas, tribal leaders say they want a say in a final agreement.

The Colorado River Indian Tribes of Arizona and California voted this month to give their namesake waterway the same legal rights as a person, saying the ‘living being’ deserves more protection while ...

The Colorado River Indian Tribes, along Arizona's western edges, would become the third Indigenous government in North America to grant a river personhood rights. The move is part of a worldwide ...

Joining me were Franco, Daniel Matapi—an activist from Colombia’s Matapi and Yukuna tribes—and Mark Plotkin, director of the Amazon Conservation Team, the Virginia-based nonprofit that sponsored ...

Tribal leaders had voiced frustration in recent weeks about talks on the Colorado River, but pledged cooperation in a new agreement.

As I’ve followed the long-running negotiations over the Colorado River the last couple of years, very little progress has been made in transforming the century-old system of managing the river’s ...

FILE - The Colorado River in the upper River Basin is pictured in Lees Ferry, Ariz., on May 29, 2021. The Supreme Court has ruled against the Navajo Nation in a dispute involving water from the ...