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Ragsdale and his on-board crew of 17 are here because the once-mighty Mississippi River is in crisis: Recent years have seen severe, months-long droughts take hold across a vast swathe of America ...

Water flows in mainland Australia’s most important river system, the Murray-Darling Basin, have been declining for the past 50 years. The trend has largely been blamed on water extraction ...

The study, published in Nature Geoscience, found that erosion from a river network about 75 kilometers from Mount Everest is carving away a substantial gorge.The loss of this landmass is causing ...

Southern California farmers are conserving a lot more Colorado River water, but that’s also causing the Salton Sea to dry up faster. That’s because the Salton Sea is filled primarily by ...

HINTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — Hundreds of trees and personal belongings of flood victims continue to pile up behind the Bluestone Dam, but the river has crested in West Virginia. Under the watchful ...

A River Walk hotel and one of its guests agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit over a ketchup bottle that fell from a sixth-floor balcony of the hotel and struck the head of a child being ...

ASHEVILLE - The river had receded from its peak in the River Arts District, exposing the devastation to businesses caused by Tropical Storm Helene. On Sept. 30, Larry Hopkins, owner of Ananda West ...

INDEPENDENCE, Iowa (KCRG) - The Independence Fire Department says a driver was not hurt after their car ended up in the Wapsipinicon River Tuesday night. Independence Fire says it received a call ...

Mount Everest is about 15 to 50 meters taller than it would otherwise be because of uplift caused by a nearby eroding river gorge, and continues to grow because of it. Mount Everest is about 15 to ...