A new species of gudgeon was discovered in the Ural River of western Russia ... and streams that flow to the Caspian Sea, in the Ural Mountains of Russia have discovered gudgeons in the mountain ...

So, it begins and ends at the little chalk stream spring near my house, and in between it moves from the mountains to the sea, flowing downhill and gathering force, as a river does, before ...

“Is a River Alive?,” the new book by Robert Macfarlane ... singing rivers and thoughtful mountains,” he writes. But then a grown-up anthropocentrism begins to seep into our syntax and ...