A seven-year-old girl fell into a river in Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province, China, on Sept. 11. The river was fast-flowing. Spotting what happened, an innocent bystander immediately took action and ...

Europe removed a record 603 dams and barriers across 21 countries in 2025, reconnecting thousands of kilometers of rivers — ...

The Zambezi River carrying sediment downstream. Free-flowing rivers are generally not included among lists of Nature-based Solutions (NbS). However, rivers that carry a natural sediment load are ...

The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released Monday, offers an ambitious vision for how the world can secure a stable climate. But that vision incorporates a ...

The Kern River moves from the Sierra Nevada, a flowing oasis for flora and fauna, coursing to the northeast side of Bakersfield, California. Then it pools, drying out and turning into miles of sand.

Two decades ago, when the Klamath River basin was considered the most embattled watershed in the country, the idea of removing the river’s four hydroelectric dams was considered laughable. Yet on ...

Rivers are supposed to follow gravity, flowing from higher ground to lower ground in one clear direction. Yet around the world, there are rare moments when rivers behave unexpectedly and start flowing ...

From its headwaters near Mansarovar on the Tibetan Plateau to its confluence with the Ganga in India, the Karnali remains one of the last great free-flowing rivers in the Himalaya. At a time when most ...