Deep in southwestern Ethiopia, where the Omo River carves through ancient valleys, something irreversible is happening.

Thousands issued urgent flood warning: "Move to higher ground now" After winning his first Oscar, Tom Cruise kept repeating ...

Last month, the seven Upper and Lower Basin states failed to come up with new terms defining how the Colorado River is to be ...

A tribal nation has declared the Colorado River a legal person. An Indigenous leader says it reflects how her people have ...

The Colorado River Indian Tribes of Arizona and California voted this month to give their namesake waterway the same legal rights as a person, saying the ‘living being’ deserves more protection while ...

Freddie Lane, an enrolled member of Lummi Nation, has watched his people’s lands flood since his childhood on the Whatcom ...

SACATON — Stephen Roe Lewis grew up seeing stacks of legal briefs at the dinner table — often, about his tribe’s water. His father, the late Rodney Lewis, was general counsel for the Gila River Indian ...

The Gila River Indian Community has strict rules about accessing the abandoned 16,500-acre site, originally known as the ...

The window is closing fast to secure the Colorado River's future "and move beyond crisis-driven policymaking," says a coalition of seven Western environmental groups. Two other environmental groups ...

Maddy Crerar and her daughter stood at pavement’s edge, where Slater Road disappeared beneath the swollen Nooksack River. A ...

South African photographer Shem Compion has spent more than 20 years documenting the extreme geography and diverse inhabitants of the Great Rift Valley.