Credit: Tracey McNamara/Shutterstock New Zealand’s government has been praised for listening to health experts in its pandemic response, but when it comes to dealing with pollution of the country’s waterways, scientific advice seems less important. Today, the government released a long-awaited NZ$700 million package to address freshwater pollution. The new rules include higher […]

Three Rivers Source National Park in China. Credit: WWF-China It is official. Everything is on track for the establishment of the Three-Rivers-Source National Park (TRSNP) in China, which—as its name suggests—protects the source of three of Asia’s greatest rivers: the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang-Mekong rivers. Located in Qinghai province, the park will […]

Multiple structures now keep the river from roaring into the Atchafalaya—but they may be inadequate against climate change. Hydrologists had calculated that by maintaining a split of the downrushing waters—with 70 percent of the flow going down the Mississippi, and 30 allowed to cannonade down into the Atchafalaya, it might […]

The satellite image of the exposed Martian cliff face. Credit: NASA JPL-Caltech UoA Matt Balme & William McMahon Researchers have spent decades looking for evidence of ancient water on Mars. As technology has progressed, more evidence has come to light that rivers, lakes and even oceans were once abundant on […]

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The upper Mississippi River, from its headwaters in Minnesota to the southern tip of Illinois, has been named the most endangered river in the United States, according to an annual list released by American Rivers, a national advocacy group Citing record-breaking flooding in 2019, which left […]

The Nile is under massive strain from pollution and climate change and now the threat of a colossal dam being built far upstream in Ethiopia Early one morning in Cairo, volunteers paddle their kayaks across the Nile, fishing out garbage from the mighty waterway that gave birth to Egyptian civilisation […]

Figure that depicts the configuration of the Gondwanan supercontinent (250 million years ago) and the location of the ancient river system. Credit: Science in Public Using zircon crystals, researchers have discovered the route of a massive ancient river that could help find new reservoirs of fossil fuels and suggest how […]

The Colorado River is seen here near Las Vegas—one of the major US cities that relies on it for its water supply The massive Colorado River, which provides water for seven US states, has seen its flow reduced by 20 percent over the course of a century—and more than half […]

At a bridge in central Cuba near Congojas, northwest of Cienfuegos, researchers collect river water. For the first time in more than 50 years, a joint team of Cuban and US scientists studied the water quality of twenty-five Cuban rivers and found little damage after centuries of sugarcane production. The […]

A shallow river bed in Buderim Forest Park, Queensland, Australia. Credit: Laura Bentley River flow is reduced in areas where forests have been planted and does not recover over time, a new study has shown. Rivers in some regions can completely disappear within a decade. This highlights the need to […]