At least 18 people have died in what the National Weather Service (NWS) has called "catastrophic flooding" that hit the South ...

China recently approved the construction of the world's largest hydropower dam, across the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet. When fully up and running, it will be the world's largest power plant—by some ...

On March 14, river defenders gathered for the 28th annual International Day of Action for Rivers. Participants united around ...

The Yarlung Tansgpo / Brahmaputra dam shows we often don’t know how to deal with rivers that cross national borders.

Sometimes rivers split into branches in unusual ways, reflecting the complexity of Earth's water system on land and how much we still must learn about it.