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

A UNC dig in 1983 found a burial site at the Mitchum dig, which may have been part of a larger Native American community.

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

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

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

As I’ve followed the long-running negotiations over the Colorado River the last couple of years, very little progress has been made in transforming the century-old system of managing the river’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Omo-Turkana Basin, where the Omo River drains into Lake Turkana in Africa, has been one of the three most valuable regions for the study of hominin evolution in Africa. Since the 1960s, many large ...

Two Northern California tribes announced Wednesday that they signed a treaty last month, committing to jointly restore the Eel River and its fish populations. Leaders from the Round Valley Indian ...