You’d be hard-pressed to find a part of the Pacific Northwest that’s more important than the Columbia River basin. Fed by the mighty Columbia and Snake rivers and their many tributaries that ...

The U.S. has paused negotiations with Canada on a keystone management plan that governs flood control, water supply and hydropower in the shared Columbia River Basin.

Why do it? Because the Columbia River Basin doesn’t have the capacity to transmit the oncoming avalanche of electricity demand needed to power data centers and high-tech businesses, while also ...

Flood risk management, hydropower generation and salmon runs will suffer if the United States and Canada don’t renew a key ...

The Columbia River Treaty is a landmark water-management agreement, ratified in 1964, by the United States and Canada which aimed to co-ordinate water management within the Columbia River Basin ...

The treaty dates to 1961, defining flood mitigation practices throughout the Columbia River basin — an area roughly the size of Texas. Negotiations to modernize the treaty began in 2018 ...

The two species of freshwater snail were once widespread throughout the Columbia Basin in Montana, Idaho ... The shortface lanx is sometimes referred to as the giant Columbia River limpet for its ...