The New York Times
Climate Change Is Ravaging the Colorado River. There’s a Model to Avert the Worst.
8 min read · Sep 5th · Success in the Yakima River Basin in Washington holds lessons for the seven states at war over water in the American West. · Shared by 56, including Jane, Jonathan Overpeck
Guardian Books
Rivers brought me heart-shattering loss
6 min read · Aug 9th · Author Amy Jane Beer’s fascination with these elemental environments was halted by tragedy, but with time she has returned to find a deep sense of connection · Shared by 49, including Jane
Guardian Environment
Sewage sleuths: the men who revealed the slow, dirty death of Welsh and English rivers
~19 min read · Aug 4th · The long read: A tide of effluent, broken laws and ruthless cuts is devastating the nations’ waterways. An academic and a detective have dredged up the truth of how it was allowed to happen – but will… · Shared by 27, including Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, Dorothy Bishop, Jane, Robert Macfarlane
Hakai Magazine
The Controversial Plan to Unleash the Mississippi
20+ min read · Jul 12th · Our long history of constraining the river through levees has led to massive land loss in its delta. Can we engineer our way out? And at what cost? · Shared by 228, including Jane
serc.carleton.edu
Flume – Low head dam installation effects on coarse sediment transport, medium shot
1 min read · Jun 27th · Flume – Low head dam installation effects on coarse sediment transport, medium shot To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Flume… · Shared by 7, including StanChan, Jane
Popular Science
Some rivers suddenly change course, and we may finally know why
4 min read · May 26th · With enough flooding and other edits to a landscape, rivers may abruptly chart new, more favorable paths, known as avulsions. · Shared by 215, including Jane, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
disappearingwest.org
Disappearing Rivers
Mar 29th · The rivers of the American West have shaped the pattern of human development across the region. In turn, human activities are rapidly changing the rivers that sustain them. Today, nearly half - 49% -… · Shared by 52, including Jane
NPR
Reporter's Notebook: Fall On A River In The Adirondacks
2 min read · 2021-09-27 · 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. · Shared by 20, including Jane
The Washington Post
Opinion | America’s rivers need help. I should know — I swam in 108 of them this summer.
2021-10-03 · Competing in a fun, absurd challenge revealed plenty of natural beauty, but way too much that was just disgusting. · Shared by 19, including Jane
Orion Magazine
A River Reawakened
8 min read · 2021-09-22 · In this web exclusive, a filmmaker witnesses ten years of rewilding Washington State's Elwha watershed. · Shared by 33, including Liv 😷, Jane, Robert Macfarlane
The New York Times
A Journey Along the River That Separates Russia From China
6 min read · 2021-09-24 · 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.” · Shared by 22, including Jane
Guardian Environment
River of life: zoo’s yearly count finds seals thriving on Thames
3 min read · 2021-09-06 · Hundreds of dozing seals show how much cleaner the river is since it was declared dead in the 1950s · Shared by 29, including Jane, Svein Tveitdal, Robert Macfarlane, Dr Heather Browning
Collider
River Review: Jennifer Peedom's Eco-Documentary Flows with Grace and Beauty
3 min read · 2021-09-04 · Much like her subject matter, Jennifer Peedom’s film is capable of both tranquility and devastating power. · Shared by 20, including Jane, Robert Macfarlane
Bloomberg
How Johannesburg’s Dirty Little River Could Help Ease Water Woes
2021-08-23 · Bloomberg connects decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. Read this story on Bloomberg. · Shared by 4, including Jane
The Guardian
Britain’s rivers are suffocating to death
3 min read · 2021-07-21 · 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 · Shared by 49, including Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Jane, Mark Lynas, Akshat Rathi, Svein Tveitdal, Chris Sacca 🇺🇸, George Monbiot
National Geographic
A legendary Arizona river is under threat
5 min read · 2021-07-13 · Record heat in Phoenix adds pressure on the Salt River, a humble waterway with an ancient history. · Shared by 29, including Jane
