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York, England
The river Ouse in flood.
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Shrinking Colorado River is a growing concern for Yuma farmers — and millions of water users
The Colorado River begins as snowmelt in the Rocky Mountains and ends 1,450 miles south in Mexico after making a final sacrifice to the United States: water for the farm fields in this powerhouse of American produce.
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Invasive Snakeheads Found Above Great Falls: Spreading to the Upper Potomac via the C&O Canal
Credible reports of snakehead sightings and results from a Maryland Department of Natural Resources and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service survey indicate that the non-native snakehead species has spread into the C&O Canal and thereby the Upper Potomac River.
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River Width GIS Data Created from 1,756 Landsat Images
Researchers used 1,756 Landsat images to develop a GIS database of river widths for the entire North American continent.
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Michigan River Remains Poisoned By Oil Five Years After Massive Spill
Five years after a pipeline rupture spilled over one million gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River, local Michigan residents and activists battle new pipeline proposals.
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River Enler fish kill: Up to 300 dead trout found
Up to 300 brown and sea trout have died after a fish kill at the River Enler in County Down.
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Where the Cave Dwellers Once Lived
As Turkey’s audacious llisu Dam approaches completion, the ancient settlement of Hasankeyf looks set to lose thousands of years of history underwater.
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Rescue mission needed to free trapped fish in North Vancouver
North Shore Rescue will decide next week if a team can descend a 60-metre canyon on the Seymour River and rescue 262 coho that are stranded in a pool directly beneath a devastating rock slide that has prevented them from traveling upstream.
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Salmon on Vancouver Island Threatened by Heat Wave
River levels in Southern B.C. are at record lows and water temperatures are at record highs. This is threatening the millions of salmon coming home to spawn and the billion-dollar freshwater fishing industry that depends on healthy rivers.
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Undamming Rivers: A Chance For New Clean Energy Source by John Waldman and Karin Limburg: Yale Environment 360
Many hydroelectric dams produce modest amounts of power yet do enormous damage to rivers and fish populations. Why not take down these aging structures, build solar farms in the drained reservoirs, and restore the natural ecology of the rivers?
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Confusion plagues EPA response to toxic Colorado mining spill it caused
Communities in Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona struggle to make sense of mixed messages and a lack of communication from the federal agency.By Caty Enders.
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Toxicologist Skeptical Of Early Animas River Reports, Metals Are 'Long Term Poisons'
People who live along the Animas River could be ingesting the contaminated water in any number of ways, from drinking it to showering in it, and the fear is how much exposure those people have had.
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Hellbent, But Not Broken
An epic boat race through hundreds of miles of Canadian wilderness. By Eva Holland.
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Chasing Alexander Supertramp
Every year, fans of "Into the Wild" risk their lives to reach the bus where Christopher McCandless died
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Old Coal Mines Still Taint Ohio Waterways
The images of Colorado’s Animas River over the past week have been jarring: An abandoned gold mine was breached, causing it to spew tainted water that has dyed the river yellow-orange all the way into Utah. The issue of abandoned mines and their legacy of water pollution is not unique to Colorado.
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Native Americans to sue US environmental agency over accidental wastewater spill
A Native American nation intends to sue the US Environmental Protection Agency over an accidental wastewater spill they claim affected more than 100,000 people. Russell Begaye, president of the Navajo Nation, told TIME that more than two-thirds of the population - spanning territory in parts of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico - had been affected.
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Chinese authorities investigate mass fish death near Tianjin explosion site
Photographs show thousands of dead fish floating in river only a few kilometres from scene of deadly explosion
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Thousands of small dead fish wash ashore near Tianjin explosion site in China
Not long after it was announced that cyanide levels have exceeding national standards at the site of China’s deadly explosion in Tianjin, thousands of dead fish washed ashore at the nearby Haihe River prompting even more concern over the environmental consequences of the blast.
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Drought Relief Bill Threatens to Drown Sacred Sites of a Northern California Tribe
Members of the Winnemem Wintu tribe in California are bracing for one of their biggest environmental justice struggles yet.
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An Ancient Fish Is Running Out of Time
Despite government efforts to expand the population, only perhaps 200 or fewer wild-born pallid sturgeons are thought to inhabit one of its last strongholds — the Montana stretches of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers. And now, paradoxically, a federal agency, the Army Corps of Engineers, is pursuing a project that threatens this population, perhaps the most genetically robust of the groups still surviving in the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.
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