NPR
Reporter's Notebook: Fall On A River In The Adirondacks
2 min read · Sep 27th · NPR's Brian Mann sends us an audio postcard from a canoe trip down a wild river in New York, in search of autumn color.
The Washington Post
Opinion | America’s rivers need help. I should know — I swam in 108 of them this summer.
Oct 3rd · Competing in a fun, absurd challenge revealed plenty of natural beauty, but way too much that was just disgusting.
orionmagazine.org
A River Reawakened
8 min read · Sep 22nd · In this web exclusive, a filmmaker witnesses ten years of rewilding Washington State's Elwha watershed.
The New York Times
A Journey Along the River That Separates Russia From China
6 min read · Sep 24th · As he neared 80, the travel writer Colin Thubron took a trip along the 10th longest river in the world, chronicled in “The Amur River.”
Guardian Environment
River of life: zoo’s yearly count finds seals thriving on Thames
3 min read · Sep 6th · Hundreds of dozing seals show how much cleaner the river is since it was declared dead in the 1950s
Collider
River Review: Jennifer Peedom's Eco-Documentary Flows with Grace and Beauty
3 min read · Sep 4th · Much like her subject matter, Jennifer Peedom’s film is capable of both tranquility and devastating power.
Bloomberg
How Johannesburg’s Dirty Little River Could Help Ease Water Woes
Aug 23rd · Bloomberg connects decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. Read this story on Bloomberg.
The Guardian
Britain’s rivers are suffocating to death
3 min read · Jul 21st · Water that should be crystal clear has become a green-brown slop of microscopic algae because of industrial farm waste, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
National Geographic
A legendary Arizona river is under threat
5 min read · Jul 13th · Record heat in Phoenix adds pressure on the Salt River, a humble waterway with an ancient history.
Guardian Environment
Laws of nature: could UK rivers be given the same rights as people?
6 min read · Jul 17th · As more and more countries grant natural features or ecosystems legal personhood, the UK’s fight to pass nature rights laws is quietly gaining pace
Guardian Environment
Illegal sewage discharge in English rivers 10 times higher than official data suggests
3 min read · Jun 14th · Underreporting by water companies and failure to hold them to account have resulted in ecological damage, analysis shows
river-runner.samlearner.com
River Runner
May 15th · Watch the path of a raindrop from anywhere in the contiguous United States
BBC Future
The rivers that 'breathe' greenhouse gases
7 min read · Mar 24th · Rivers are a surprisingly large source of greenhouse gases, and water pollution makes their emissions many times worse.
emergencemagazine.org
River at the Heart of the World
~15 min read · Mar 17th · Arati Kumar-Rao ventures into a forested river gorge in the hidden land of Pemakö, which exists deep within the heart of the Tibetan Buddhist belief system.
The Conversation
Why we should release New Zealand’s strangled rivers to lessen the impact of future floods
5 min read · Feb 23rd · Given climate change predictions of more extreme floods in New Zealand, it's time to change management practices to work with a river, allowing it room to move and its channels to adjust.
riverrelief.org
The Missouri River Ice Jam of 2021
7 min read · Feb 22nd · by Steve Schnarr This past week in mid-Missouri, we’ve been witnessing a rare winter phenomena on the Missouri River. Usually several times a year the river begins to flow with pancake ice, those…
