The following is a news release from Yellowstone National Park. MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. – Effective immediately, select rivers and streams that were partially closed to fishing due to warm water ...

Nitrates, fecal bacteria, sediment and other pollutants in the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers threaten safe drinking water for 20% of the state’s population. That's one of the findings from a sweeping ...

On the last weekend of August 2011, Stephen Farrington of Stockbridge took his family to stay at his parents’ house in Burlington ahead of Tropical Storm Irene. At the time, his major concern was the ...

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the southernmost reach of the river, where it meets the Gulf. NEW ORLEANS, La. – ...

New Westminster, British Columbia, is located on the banks of the Fraser River. Photo courtesy of Flickr/Creative Commons user Dennis Sylvester Hurd Since the last Ice Age more than 10,000 years ago, ...

Meandering rivers, common on Earth, are typically bordered by vegetation which both provides strength to outer banks and induces deposition along inner ones. River meander deposits are rare in early ...

Mississippi River ships and barges carry over 500 million tons of cargo through the Southwest Pass shipping channel at the river’s end to reach major ports that handle 18% of U.S. waterborne commerce.

Margo Denke, co-founder of the group Friends of Hondo Canyon, surveys a stretch of Commissioners Creek on her ranch in Bandera County. Credit: Inside Climate News / Dylan Baddour Sign up for The Brief ...

EXPRESS FILE PHOTO A file photo from the Fishing Creek Rehabilitation Project shows an excavator used by PA Fish & Boat Commission to move a piece of log frame. HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania ...

Thousands of anglers visit the coldwater streams of the upper Delaware River watershed each year to catch native brook trout. However, trout populations have been impacted by land use, habitat loss ...

Many high-mountain rivers in Asia transport more sediment downstream compared to a few years ago. Changes in sediment levels have a particularly strong impact on agriculture, water quality, flood ...