For decades, the Willamette River that runs through Portland, Oregon, was a look-but-don't-touch situation. "When we first moved here, there was no way in hell you'd get in the water," resident ...

As the boat zipped down the Chicago River on a nippy November morning, Sammie Clark stood up and pointed at a creature swimming in the water, its brown fur slick and its head bobbing just above the ...

From mapping 249 sewage discharge points to discovering hidden freshwater springs, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar's four-pillar ...

Chicago is well-known for its greatest feat of water-based civil engineering: the reversal, in 1900, of the Chicago River to protect the city’s residents from waterborne disease. Chicago’s waterways — ...

From where I stood at the intersection of Norman Berry Drive and Calhoun Street in East Point, I could hear the water. I looked down a steep incline and finally saw where the South River daylights.

Urban rivers are “especially vulnerable” to pollution, an MP has warned after thousands of litres of oil spilled into an ...

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A new celebrity is making waves in Chicago — and she's the talk of Chicago's South and Southwest sides. The environmental nonprofit group Urban Rivers spotted the female beaver along the South Branch ...

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It’s big, it’s mysterious, and it’s taken over Chicago’s heart — now, it just needs a name. A beaver, spotted along Bubbly Creek on the southwest branch of the Chicago River, has become an internet ...

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