Chaucer and Shakespeare lived through periods of weird weather not unlike what we are seeing today. So what can we learn from ...

A tribal nation has declared the Colorado River a legal person. An Indigenous leader says it reflects how her people have ...

Dr. Magali Nehemy stood on the banks of the Tapajós River in the Amazon rainforest when the community's chief—a man in his ...

Friends of the Rappahannock (FOR), a Fredericksburg-based river-conservation organization, on Tuesday received the largest ...

A wonderful quote from the 1928 novel "Tragedy at the Unicorn" by John Rhode: “He told me that it would afford him the utmost ...

Pretty and gritty: that’s how some locals describe Astoria, Oregon, a far-flung town sitting where the Columbia River meets ...

Travel back in time with 21 vintage transport adventures still running around the world today, from steam trains and cable ...

Jack White is now one of the most famous guitarists of all time, but at one point, his personal life was very much part of ...

The inundation of water was more than just provision for crops and fields: the Egyptians called the event the coming of Hapy, ...

TAPAUA, Brazil (AP) — Environmental agents from Brazil’s Chico Mendes Institute released giant Amazon River turtle hatchlings into the waters of the Abufari Biological Reserve in Tapaua, Amazonas ...

When dolphins began washing up dead by the dozens on Lake Tefe in Brazil's Amazonas state, hydrologist Ayan Fleischmann was sent to find out why. What he and his colleagues discovered was startling: a ...

For decades, archaeologists have suspected that human settlement in the Amazon basin was more expansive, ancient, and sophisticated than previously recorded. However, direct evidence remained ...