Highly radioactive spill near Columbia River in E. Washington worse than expected
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The crop that’s sucking the Colorado River dry: Hay swallows triple the water used by everyone in the region to shower, water lawns, and do laundry
34 votes -
California fires back at other Western states with its own Colorado River plan
9 votes -
Disaster scenarios raise the stakes for Colorado River negotiations
6 votes -
Paris has pledged to make the Seine swimmable by the 2024 Summer Olympics, investing in a $1.6 billion stormwater holding tank to curb sewage pollution
11 votes -
Mississippi River levels are dropping too low for barges to float
3 votes -
Why the US Army electrifies this water
7 votes -
Poland: ‘Huge’ amounts of chemical waste dumped into river
8 votes -
Rio Grande runs dry in Albuquerque for the first time in forty years
9 votes -
California imposes sweeping ban on pumping river water in San Joaquin Valley, Bay Area
11 votes -
Nebraska will spend $500M to claim South Platte River water from Colorado
5 votes -
Large amounts of mercury discovered in Greenland's glaciers – the heavy metal raises concerns for the health of indigenous communities
5 votes -
Rights of nature: How granting a river personhood could help protect it
5 votes -
Simple hand-built structures can help streams survive wildfires and drought
10 votes -
The life that springs from dead leaves in streams
4 votes -
New data indicates the Mississippi Delta is on borrowed time
7 votes -
2000-2010 drought in Upper Missouri River Basin driest in 1,200 years
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The Chinese paddlefish, one of world's largest fish, has gone extinct
3 votes -
New Zealand streams teeming with pesticides
3 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?
7 votes -
This US heartland has been flooded for five months. Does anyone care?
10 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.
10 votes -
Hell is high water: When will the Mississippi River come for New Orleans?
6 votes -
'So much land under so much water': Extreme flooding is drowning parts of the midwest
12 votes -
'It's never done this': Arkansas River keeps flooding, testing levees and patience
7 votes -
In a town shaped by water, the river is winning
4 votes -
Will damming this river lead to war?
6 votes -
Traveling the Green River to understand the future of water in the West
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.
9 votes -
Scientists lay out new plan to save the Darling River
6 votes -
Brazil's Pataxo depended on a river that's now polluted with mud
7 votes -
Europe’s most important river is running dry
15 votes -
Cry me a river: Low water levels causing chaos in Germany
7 votes -
Two French rivers disappear underground in large cracks and sinkholes
8 votes -
Water scarcity stirs debate over who owns Brazil's rivers
7 votes -
Invasion of a river giant
4 votes