Tag: River
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Five Years Into a Fishing Ban, the Yangtze River Is Teeming With Life
Flowing almost 4,000 miles from the Tibetan Plateau to the East China Sea, the Yangtze…
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Disaster Looms on the Guadalupe River Floodplain
An epic flood a generation ago drenched areas around Texas’ Guadalupe River, showing how quickly…
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‘A Disaster Waiting to Happen’: How the Fracking Boom Put an Oil Field in the Guadalupe River Floodplain
GONZALES, Texas—More than 500 enormous oil tanks dot the floodplains of the Guadalupe River and…
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Colorado River Negotiators Are Nearly Out of Time and Snowpack
Time and water are running low on the Colorado River. Amid one of the driest…
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‘I Am the River’: How Indigenous Knowledge Reshaped New Zealand’s Law
Ned Tapa has spent his life along New Zealand’s Whanganui River. For Tapa, a Māori…
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The Army Corps of Engineers Wants to Dredge the Cape Fear River. Environmentalists Tally the Costs.
Forever War, Part 3: This story is the third in a series of stories about…
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A once-sparkling Alaskan river has turned a sickly orange color » Yale Climate Connections
Transcript: Alaska’s Salmon River was once known for its clean, sparkling water. But recently the…
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Colorado River Water Is Too Cheap, Particularly for Agricultural Users
Colorado River water is not priced at rates that accurately reflect its scarcity, incentivizing inefficiency…
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Country diary: The river has risen to meet the trees. This is Storm Claudia’s work | Flooding
Low sunlight casts the shadows of figures, standing on the Frankwell footbridge in Shrewsbury across…
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Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study | Amazon rainforest
Amazonian lakes are being transformed into simmering basins hotter than spa baths as severe heatwaves…