Tom Hendrix doesn't advertise his wall, but its fame has spread by word of mouth to become something of a pilgrimage site.

Chinese conservationists believe they may have caught a rare glimpse of a freshwater dolphin that was declared functionally extinct a decade ago having graced the Yangtze river for 20 million years. Scientists and environmentalists had appeared to abandon hope that China’s baiji, or white dolphin, could survive as a species after they failed to find a single animal during a fruitless six-week hunt along the 6,300-km (3,915-mile) waterway in 2006.

Hundreds of people were rescued by boat and helicopter as floodwaters inundated North Carolina towns on Monday in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, and officials warned that life-threatening flooding from swollen rivers would continue for days.

We were water beings from the beginning. The river was our Grandmother and supplied everything we needed to survive... By Linda Hogan. (Oct. 4, 2016)

Indonesia’s capital is working to dredge its network of rivers and canals, long blocked with garbage and a central contributor to chronic flooding. by Joe Cochrane.

Between 1309 and 1814, with Europe in the grip of the cool period sometimes known as the Little Ice Age, the river Thames froze over 23 times. In five of these instances, the river's ice was thick enough to support structures, and citizens of London took advantage of the circumstances to throw dayslong "frost fairs." As part of the festivities, printers set up shop on the ice and sold engraved and letterpressed sheets of paper like those below.

The largest dam in the world is set to begin construction within months and could be generating electricity in under five years. But 35,000 people may have to be relocated and it could be built without any environmental or social impact surveys, say critics. The $14bn (£9.5bn) Inga 3 project, the first part of the mega-project, is being fast-tracked by the Democratic Republic of Congo government will span one channel of the vast river Congo at Inga Falls. It involves a large dam and a 4,800MW hydro-electric plant.

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Vietnamese scientists have warned of the unusual increase in the depth of two major rivers in the Mekong Delta, with sand mining and hydropower dams said to be the cause. (Aug. 16, 2016)

By Lauren Carasik. (Aug. 16, 2016)

Ban on all fishing, rafting and other river activities in the US river will remain until fish stop dying, say officials.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has found deep, steep-sided canyons on Saturn’s moon Titan that are flooded with liquid hydrocarbons. The finding represents the first direct evidence of the presence of liquid-filled channels on Titan, as well as the first observation of canyons hundreds of meters deep.

Physicists want equations that connect behaviors directly to the foundations of reality. With the continuity equation, they actually pull it off. By Brendan Cole.

In Laredo, Texas, paramedics help everyone and don’t ask questions. By Abe Streep.

Some of the world’s largest, oldest fish live in Oregon. Why anyone would want to vandalize them, even abduct them, takes explaining. By Adrian Shirk.

A deluge that washed down the Yellow River nearly 4,000 years ago could be linked to the founding of China’s semi-mythical first dynasty.

A Quest for the Forgotten Stories of the Tennessee River. By Clay Duda. (July 21, 2016)

Every year, local communities on either side of the Apurimac River Canyon use traditional Inka engineering techniques to rebuild the Q'eswachaka Bridge. The old bridge is taken down and the new bridge is built in only three days. The bridge has been rebuilt in this same location continually since the time of the Inka.

At the top of the world a climate disaster is unfolding that threatens the lives of more than a billion people. By Matthew Carney.