Like many river islands, Reed Island is constantly shaped by the ceaseless currents of the Columbia. In 1885, it was bought by homesteaders William and Myrta Reed, who raised a family here.

The man-made Hoffman and Swinburne Islands have been given over to nature. These artificial landmasses in Lower New York Bay were constructed with landfill in the 1870s to quarantine newly arrived ...

Nov. 28—An unusually high tide, driven by November's Beaver Supermoon, flooded the parking lot at Howard T. Brown Memorial Park in Norwich the other morning, as friends and I prepared to launch ...

The river’s mud, which lacks oxygen, is a sealant that helps preserve remains. (If oxygen is present, bones decompose much faster .) And because there is so much activity on the Thames, its mud ...

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