Filamentous algae blooms alter river ecosystems without disrupting overall function

Algae is a ubiquitous feature in waterways throughout the globe, including western North America. Slippery, green epilithic ...
NPR

The Ohio River, which supplies drinking water to millions of people, is endangered

The Ohio River supplies drinking water to millions of people between Pennsylvania and Illinois. It's also one of the most endangered rivers in the country, according to a new report from the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Cuyahoga River Caught Fire at Least a Dozen Times, but No One Cared Until 1969

Original Caption: Firemen stand on a bridge over the Cuyahoga River to spray water on the tug Arizona, as a fire, started in an oil slick on the river, sweeps the docks at the Great Lakes Towing ...
PBS

The Mississippi River Commission and the Army Corps of Engineers

Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover and Vice Chairman of the Red Cross James Fieser. Ten thousand River Commissions, with the mines of the world at their back, can not tame that lawless stream, ...
University of Colorado Boulder

Colorado River Continues to Bring Unlikely Parties Together at CRWUA

The closing act of CRWUA 2025 was an orderly (and familiar) report from each of the basin states’ principal negotiators that ...
Treasure Coast Newspapers

Indian River Lagoon channel dredging at River Watch to begin despite opposition

Some River Watch residents and conservationists are concerned about a dredging project. The conservation area is supposed to be protected in perpetuity. The Florida Department of Environmental ...

River Source Family Center programming returns to rural areas

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (WEAU) - River Source Family Center will be back in the Bloomer, Cornell, and Stanley areas beginning ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The 70 Million-Year-Old History of the Mississippi River

In 1758, the French ethnographer Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz published The History of Louisiana, in which he wrote that the Mississippi River’s name meant “the ancient father of rivers.” Though ...
The New York Times

The Colorado River Is Shrinking. See What’s Using All the Water.

Hint: It’s less about long showers and more about what’s for dinner. The water supply that 40 million Americans rely on has been pushed to its limit. Reservoirs and wells are running low. This week, ...
The Bellingham Herald

Washington announces record sockeye salmon returns to Baker River system

WDFW reports 91,880 sockeye returned to Skagit and Baker River system in 2025. 1.5 million juvenile sockeye passed Baker Lake collectors in May 2025. PSE, Upper Skagit, Swinomish and WDFW expanded ...
NPR

Saltwater is moving up the Mississippi River. Here's what's being done to stop it

NEW ORLEANS — Ducks have taken roost on a sandy strip along the Mississippi River — a bank that's typically underwater. "We have this nice little beach here that Black-bellied whistling ducks are ...

Search expands for missing Colfax hiker after vehicle and dog were found, sheriff's office says

Placer County authorities intensify a multi-agency search for a missing hiker last seen near Colfax's Codfish Falls Trail ...