Stretching across France, this remarkable river passes through dramatic mountain landscapes, storybook villages, and a UNESCO ...

On May 12, 2008, the magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan Earthquake shook central China, its destructive tremors spreading from the flank of the Longmen Shan, or Dragon's Gate Mountains, along the eastern margin ...

Rivers naturally flow downhill. They descend from mountain peaks toward the ocean, winding around obstacles rather than plowing straight through them. Yet Utah's Green River defies this basic ...

Geologists may have finally solved a longstanding mystery surrounding the Colorado River's largest tributary, which appears to have defied gravity and flowed uphill when it first formed. The Green ...

ST ANTHONY, Minn. — A local woman is traveling the world with the goal of inspiring people who live along rivers to protect and love them. Just two weekends ago along the Mississippi, Ping Wang held a ...

If a river could speak, what would it say? Would it beg for respite from climate change and pollution, or demand reparations for centuries of damming and other devastating human interventions? Would ...

In the mountains where waterways that feed the great Syr Darya River originate, three generations of Kyrgyz beekeepers seek out the flower fields that will nourish the tens of thousands of bees that ...

Scientists found that trout from lakes stocked decades ago in the Wind River Mountains have higher numbers of gill rakers, which are bony or cartilage structures in the gullets of fish that act as ...

Powerful floodwaters carried landslide debris down the Min River, leaving boulders perched atop what remains of this bridge. (Santa Barbara, Calif.) — On May 12, 2008, the magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan ...