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.

The death toll from flooding that cut access to over half of the Congolese capital of Kinshasa has reached 33 as authorities ...

Rivers join downstream, flow downhill, and eventually meet an ocean or terminal lake: These are fundamental rules of how ...

A storm system sweeping over large areas of the U.S. South and Midwest has resulted in at least 16 weather-related deaths, ...

The Hill of Three Waters outside of Hibbing is one of half a dozen places in the U.S. where two continental divides intersect ...

Miscommunication and misunderstood geography are confounding discussions about China’s planned dams on the Yarlung Tsangpo ...

Mark’s relationship with the Stanislaus River and the influence of river defenders ultimately inspired the founding of ...

A map from the USGS showed that some rivers were 23,000 percent of their normal median level or higher as of Friday morning.