Latest estimates place the Upper Colorado River Basin snowpack at just 83 percent of the historic median for this time of ...

Las Vegas has now gone 212 days without rain, and all of Clark County is under either extreme or exceptional drought, but water levels at Lake Mead keep rising. Newsweek reached out to the National ...

The 1.5 million acre Lake Mead National Recreation Area covers “mountains, canyons, valleys and two vast lakes,” the National ...

Amid the woozy desert haze springs an incongruous streak of blue. Lake Mead is the most mirage-like thing I’ve ever seen that ...

A hidden reservoir of groundwater more than twice the size of Lake Mead is buried inside the Oregon Cascades, a new study reports. Scientists found that the underground aquifer holds at least 19.4 ...

The latest Bureau of Reclamation projections for Lake Mead, released in February, point to about a one-in-three chance that by 2026 the reservoir will drop below 1,020 feet, a number that Fleck ...

Researchers discovered the aquifer to be nearly three times the capacity of Lake Mead, a reservoir that covers parts of Nevada and Arizona. It also supplied water to those two states and California.

But is there still a whole lot of water to go boating? Absolutely.” At maximum capacity, Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the United States by volume. Even now, at less than 27 percent of ...

This recreation area provides scenic vistas of Lake Mead and Lake Mohave with more than 700 miles of shoreline and a beautiful reservoir for boaters, swimmers, and anglers to explore. The surrounding ...

A view of Lake Mead - in wetter times, the water came all the way up to the rocks A once-in-a-lifetime drought in the western part of the US is turning up dead bodies - but that's the least of ...

On the way back to the dock, while toweling off, it was hard not to notice Lake Mead’s depletion. A potent combination of seemingly endless drought and human activity has lowered the reservoir ...