Free-flowing rivers are vital for freshwater ecosystems. Learn more about WWF's efforts to preserve their natural state.
Rivers, the lifelines of civilization, are now among the most endangered ecosystems on Earth, making this year’s World Rivers Day more urgent than ever. Every year on the fourth Sunday of September, ...
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Who Really Controls the World’s Rivers?
Environment / Books & the Arts / James C. Scott’s last book, In Praise of Floods, asks if it’s too late for humanity to ...
Rivers are often imagined as vast, winding waterways that carve through continents and sustain life across great distances, but not all rivers fit this description. According to WorldAtlas, around the ...
In the summer of 2022, extreme heat and unprecedented drought drove parts of the world’s third largest river, the Yangtze, to dry up. The impacts for hydropower, shipping and industry in China were ...
Martha Brae River in Falmouth, Trelawny parish, Jamaica. Beautiful lush green natural canopy foliage landscape. Romantic nature setting, famous for rafting. Popular tourist attraction/ excursion. As ...
Rivers are shrinking and aquifers are falling, raising fears of “water bankruptcy” as billions experience increasing water ...
The Tonle Sap River is roughly 100 kilometers long, starting at the Tonle Sap Lake in northwestern Cambodia. It is midday in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. The Mekong River, having mixed with ...
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