Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its intelligence and charismatic appearance; it ...

The Yangtze porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis) used to be a common sighting in the Yangtze River. Boaters would watch ...

Pete Festersen said the city needs “to do all we can to prevent any such incidents in the future" following the drownings of ...

At least 10 people died and over 70 were hospitalized after strong winds capsized tourist boats in Guizhou, China. President Xi Jinping has called for urgent safety reforms as China faces multiple ...

Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter conducted a harrowing 43-day trip down the Colorado River in an effort to map the Grand Canyon's flora.

Gregg Popovich stepped down. Mike Tomlin moved up. The decision by Popovich to end his run as coach of the San Antonio Spurs ...

The authors of a new memo say that states need to take shared water cutbacks to manage the Colorado River going forward.

The Northern Forest Canoe Trail (NFCT) is the longest inland water trail in the United States, covering 740 miles in four ...

The Mississippi River crested in New Orleans this week, capping an anxious period for the engineers and residents who live ...

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Decades of recovery efforts are bringing one of the Missouri's endangered and longest-living fish back to prominence ...

Those of us that live in and around Atlantic, Exira, Brayton, Lewis, Griswold, Elliott, Shenandoah, Red Oak and Riverton are quite familiar with the East Nish, short for Nishnabotna. Locals ...