Peru’s Marañón River was made a legal person, granting it the rights to be free-flowing and free of contamination. Mari Luz ...

We do this not only for us, but for all of humanity and all beings.” For Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari of Peru, a winner of ...

The Rappanannock River joins other U.S. rivers such as the Mississippi River and Lower Rio Grande on American Rivers' top 10 ...

The Bonnet Carre Spillway has been opened more than a dozen times since it was constructed nearly 100 years ago, but the ...

The Sinú River in northwestern Colombia is a kind of bloodstream from which life emanates. Its heart lies within Paramillo ...

A recent study reveals the potential risk of river water flowing underground in Brazil due to high groundwater extraction, which could lead to losses in streamflow. Researchers found a correlation ...

They were incredibly generous with their time, helping our team to tell the story of just how important it was for people and nature that the river was able to flow again. It was also heartening to ...

It's hard to imagine where New Orleans would be today without the spillway. But despite all the good it has done, many in ...

A major issue facing U.S. rivers is contamination by sewage and other forms of pollution, but some communities are impacted ...

Then, beginning in the 1920s, Western states began divvying up the Colorado’s water, building dams and diverting the flow ... against nature, but there are ominous new twists. The river has ...