Nebraska will spend $500M to claim South Platte River water from Colorado ~enviro Article 903 words 5 votes
How one little boat (and me) held up miles of London traffic at Tower Bridge ~transport Video 7:44, published Aug 9 2021 7 votes
Large amounts of mercury discovered in Greenland's glaciers – the heavy metal raises concerns for the health of indigenous communities ~enviro pollution.water Article 1018 words 5 votes
Rights of nature: How granting a river personhood could help protect it ~enviro conservation Article 1159 words, published Jun 3 2021 5 votes
Simple hand-built structures can help streams survive wildfires and drought ~enviro water Article 2620 words 10 votes
Tens of thousands of large dams are reaching the end of their expected lifespans, leading to a dramatic rise in failures and posing a serious threat to hundreds of millions living downstream ~engineering Article 2155 words 10 votes
The life that springs from dead leaves in streams ~enviro Article 1526 words, published Aug 6 2020 4 votes
2000-2010 drought in Upper Missouri River Basin driest in 1,200 years ~enviro climate change Article 420 words 7 votes
The Chinese paddlefish, one of world's largest fish, has gone extinct ~enviro Article 1030 words 3 votes
The drowned lands of the Wallkill ~humanities.history Article 649 words, published Jul 20 2019 6 votes
Frank Gehry's most ambitious project: Restoring the Los Angeles River ~design urban planning Article 3024 words 6 votes
The lost river: The Colorado River serves over thirty-five million Americans before reaching Mexico – but it is dammed at the border, leaving locals on the other side with a dry delta ~enviro Article 1705 words 6 votes
Life on the Mississippi: Mark Twain painted an evocative vision of the Mississippi River, but he didn’t tell the whole story ~humanities.history Article 3142 words 7 votes
Losing the eternal blue sky: Meet a changing Mongolia. Rivers are dry. Pastureland is giving way to mines. And wintertime smog obscures the famed blue sky. How did the country get here? ~enviro climate change pollution.air Article 32 words 7 votes
This US heartland has been flooded for five months. Does anyone care? ~enviro Article 473 words 10 votes
How a 'perfect storm' cut off water to this Colorado town ~news usa.co.paonia Article 1573 words 4 votes
Parts of New Orleans are flooded. Worse is on the way: A brewing storm surge could elevate the Mississippi River to twenty feet above sea level—as high as the levees that protect the city. ~enviro Article 458 words 10 votes
Hell is high water: When will the Mississippi River come for New Orleans? ~enviro Article 3338 words 6 votes
'So much land under so much water': Extreme flooding is drowning parts of the midwest ~enviro Article 2524 words 12 votes
'It's never done this': Arkansas River keeps flooding, testing levees and patience ~enviro Article 840 words 7 votes
Tractor driver finds South Island's first moa footprints in Otago river ~science anthropology Article 639 words 7 votes
The Whanganui River in New Zealand is a legal person. Soon, the government will recognize a forest and mountain as legal persons too. Can giving the natural world rights save it? ~enviro conservation Article 8 votes
Traveling the Green River to understand the future of water in the West ~enviro Article 1927 words 6 votes
Louisiana’s disappearing coast - The state loses a football field’s worth of land every hour and a half. Now engineers are in a race to prevent it from sinking into oblivion. ~enviro Article 9457 words 9 votes
Brazil's Pataxo depended on a river that's now polluted with mud ~enviro pollution.water Article 1703 words 7 votes
Two French rivers disappear underground in large cracks and sinkholes ~enviro water Article 349 words 8 votes
Why are lakes and rivers in the Canadian Rocky Mountains so brilliantly turquoise blue? ~science physics Article 3974 words 5 votes