Rivers

There are wastewater treatment plants in every major city designed to filter out some of the chemicals and drugs that end up going down our drains, but there’s another way this kind of treatment takes place.

Each year Idaho's rivers are visited by thousands of people, some looking for scenic routes and others for adventure. It can be hard though, to know where exactly to find each experience, which is why a new resource is putting all the information you'll need for an Idaho river trip in one spot.

Throughout Idaho flows over 100,000 miles of river. It's a resource that helps to shape our economy, communities and most recently the latest exhibit at the Sun Valley Museum of Art.

Right now, high mountain snow is melting fast. You can see it starting to overflow rivers all over Idaho, including the Boise and Snake River. And that water is filling streams and reservoirs that are part of the Colorado River system, a lifeline for tens of millions of people in the west. But some of that snow is disappearing before it melts.

While debate continues over whether or not to remove the four lower Snake River dams to help fish, like endangered salmon, in other places, dams are already coming down for a variety of reasons.

A new study reveals how climate change and irrigating crops are affecting river flows in the Western U.S.

A new survey shows many Americans think climate change is causing harm to people right now – and they don’t expect things to get any better.

Right now, high mountain snow is melting fast. You can see it starting to overflow rivers all over Idaho, including the Boise and Snake River. And that water is filling streams and reservoirs that are part of the Colorado River system, a lifeline for tens of millions of people in the west. But some of that snow is disappearing before it melts.

Just over a year after President Joe Biden signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act into law, a flood of money is already being put to work to restore aquatic ecosystems in the Mountain West.

The Colorado River and the Snake River rank Nos. 1 and 2 on a conservation group's list of the 10 most endangered rivers in the country.