rivers

Lethal cyanobacteria are creeping into rivers—no one knows exactly why

Researcher Hannah Bonner conducts a visual monitoring survey of benthic cyanobacteria in North Creek, a tributary of Utah’s Virgin River.…

6 months ago

40 million people share the shrinking Colorado River.

Here’s how that water gets divvied up. The Colorado River passes through Mesa County, March 7, 2024, near Loma. The…

7 months ago

Tijuana River: ‘on the level of the Flint water crisis,’ warn advocates

Photo: The Tijuana River sewage crisis has forced some beaches to close for the past 800 days and counting. For…

8 months ago

Sewage sleuths: the men who revealed the slow, dirty death of Welsh and English rivers

Ashley Smith and Peter Hammond by the River Windrush in Oxfordshire. Photograph: Sam Frost/The Guardian A tide of effluent, broken…

8 months ago

USBR: Building a defense against extinction

Photo: Delta smelt are native to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reclamation, partner agencies continue extraordinary effort to save Delta smelt…

8 months ago