Amid sewer infrastructure project, Thames fishermen hope for revival of London river

abcnews.go.com

A massive “super sewer” project is bringing the biggest upgrades to London’s sewers in more than 150 years.

Love The Habitat You’re With

www.biographic.com

Locals in Tucson, Arizona are applying “reconciliation ecology” techniques to rehabilitate the region’s degraded landscapes and waterways.

Fish Are Spawning In The Chicago River Another Sign The Once Contaminated Waterway Is Rebounding

www.smithsonianmag.com

A new study suggests at least 24 species of fish are reproducing in the urban river, adding to the evidence that it is getting cleaner and healthier.

Rivers choose their path based on erosion, a discovery that could transform flood planning and restoration

Rivers are Earth's arteries. Water, sediment and nutrients self-organize into diverse, dynamic channels as they journey from the mountains to the sea. Some rivers carve out a single pathway, while others divide into multiple interwoven threads. These channel patterns shape flood risks, erosion hazards and ecosystem services for more than three billion people who live along river corridors worldwide.

River of giants: Canoe team tracks hippos in one of Africa’s last strongholds

Mongabay Environmental News

KAFUE NATIONAL PARK, Zambia — “Hippos ahead.” The warning comes from the lead canoe. Hippos are dangerous — highly territorial and fiercely protective of their young. They are capable of capsizing boats and inflicting serious injuries. The line of five canoes hugs the riverbank to avoid a group midstream, but suddenly a mother hippo (Hippopotamus […]

Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane review – streams of consciousness

the Guardian

Tracking a river through a cedar forest in Ecuador, Robert Macfarlane comes to a 30ft-high waterfall and, below it, a wide pool. It’s irresistible: he plunges in. The water under the falls is turbulent, a thousand little fists punching his shoulders. He’s exhilarated.

Rafting a Western River With the Next Generation

Rivers soak into your bones. My father and I would later accompany this crew on some of the West’s great rivers — the Snake, the Clearwater, the Salmon, the San Juan.

Nick Offerman Paddles a Badass Canoe He Built Down the L.A. River

Outside Online

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The Mystery of the Headless Goats in the Chattahoochee

The New Yorker

When I was twelve, my mother, Sally Bethea, co-founded a nonprofit that was eventually called Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, or C.R.K. Part of the Waterkeeper Alliance, a network of environmental groups devoted to defending rivers, bays, and other bodies of water, C.R.K.

When the River Took John Squires

For years, three old friends from California had been making an annual pilgrimage to fish Alaska’s wild and pristine waterways. But in 2018, only two came home.

To Revive a River, Restore Its Hidden Gut

Scientific American

Salmon are so elemental to Indigenous peoples who live along North America’s northwestern coast that for generations several nations have called themselves the “Salmon People.” But when settlers came, their forms of agricultural and urban development devastated the mighty fish.