Tag: River
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CSX Train Derailment in Virginia Puts Chickahominy River at Risk
A train derailment last Saturday dumped coal and diesel fuel into wetlands near the Chickahimony…
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Amid Rollbacks on Environmental Protections, the EPA Goes the Other Way on Delaware River Water Quality
The federal government is raising the required oxygen level in an urban stretch of the…
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In the Once Heavily Polluted Chicago River, More Fish, a Giant Snapping Turtle and an Upcoming Swim
CHICAGO—Krystyna Kurth likes to begin her tours of the river cutting past the city’s post-industrial…
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The Colorado River Is This Tribe’s ‘Lifeblood,’ Now They Want To Give It the Same Legal Rights as a Person
In far western Arizona, the dusty beige expanse of desert stretches as far as the…
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Activists Pledge to Resist Any Federal Effort to Lift Fracking Ban in Delaware River Basin
Fears that the Trump administration is looking for ways to lift a longstanding ban on…
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Urban swimming: six European cities that revived river bathing
Parisians are swimming in the Seine again following a years-long clean-up – but the French…
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Trump Move to Increase Coal Mining in the Powder River Basin Will Worsen Climate Change, Experts Warn
The Trump administration—ignoring decades of climate science and downward economic trends—has begun the process of…
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‘They are a species on the brink’: can trees save the salmon in Scotland’s River Dee? | Rivers
On an unusually hot May day in Aberdeenshire, Edwin Third stands on the bank of…