The post A look at the impact of pollution on rivers and efforts to keep them clean appeared first on The World from PRX. Author Sy Montgomery and illustrator Matt Patterson are both naturalists.

Guéret. British Corner. Is a river alive ? - a good question and one that Robert MacFarlane asks in his latest book with that title. The answer should be “Yes” of course a river is alive, a living ...

Video courtesy of CNN BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — An avalanche of water from three overflowing rivers swept through a small city in Colombia while people slept, destroying homes and killing at least ...

American Rivers, an organization with a national effort to protect and restore all rivers, published the report on Monday, listing the top 10 most-endangered rivers in the U.S. Threats ranged from ...

Researchers found substantial variation in the amount of plastic pollution intercepted in rivers studied — but all had plastic. Scaling up average plastic collection rates documented in this study ...

A map from the paper showing potential municipal solid waste (MSW) leakage in rivers in 2020. The hotspots of waste may only get worse in the future. Gomez-Sanabria, A., Lindl, F. 2024 Nature ...