Nature-inspired responses like planting more trees and revegetating wetlands could reduce flooding in the northern rivers.
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The Caspian Sea is becoming warmer and shallower, with damaging economic and environmental effects.
The natural connectivity of rivers acts like a highway, helping invasive species spread rapidly throughout a catchment.
Bangladesh’s planned Padma Barrage may repeat mistakes made by India when it dammed the Ganges.
Salmon have faced a boom-bust cycle for years. Making their recovery last longer will require some big changes, including how hatcheries produce fish.
After years of drought, Lake Kariba’s rising waters are bringing relief to Zimbabwe and Zambia, boosting electricity, fishing, tourism and wildlife.
Days of intense rain and snowmelt overwhelmed old dams and breached roads, forcing evacuations. Nearly half the counties in Michigan – often seen as a climate haven – were under a state of emergency.
Beaver dams play a key role in the ecosystem but are often considered dangerous, even though they have a limited impact on flooding downstream.
A new report finds 325 migratory fish species in urgent need of help, including some of the world’s most iconic freshwater giants.
The Lesotho-South Africa water deal was clinched during the apartheid era and without public consultation.
Gold was the first attraction, but late in the 1500s the Portuguese became obsessed with the idea that there were silver mines in Africa.
Iran’s sprawling cities and irrigated agriculture, along with tight market controls, have left the country vulnerable to drought. There are steps that would help.
Since Dolgarrog, the UK has had an excellent reservoir safety record but disasters do still occur.
A century after a dam burst in Dolgarrog, killing 16 people, the Welsh village still lives with the legacy that reshaped UK safety laws and its own identity.
After a hiatus, the World Bank returned to dam building, but has anything changed?
US attempts to intervene in long-running spat between Ethiopia and Egypt has yielded little progress – and may have put US credibility on the line.
River heat waves are rising faster than the pace of air heat waves. That’s a problem for fish, drinking water quality, and food and energy production.
The Yarlung Tansgpo / Brahmaputra dam shows we often don’t know how to deal with rivers that cross national borders.
Two-thirds of the Panama Canal watershed’s freshwater goes to operate the locks. The country plans to build another reservoir to funnel in more water, but hundreds of homes stand in the way.
Australia now has more than enough evidence that proposals to build big dams consistently underestimate both the construction costs and the harm they do.
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