Stuck for five days on a raging river with little food, the 900-pound animal was tranquilized before being flown to a horse hospital in Phoenix.
Managing the Mississippi River for people and nature presents enormous challenges — and smarter conservation can play a huge role.
Rivers have generated more songs than any other habitat. Jeff Opperman offers his top 10 list. What are your favorites?
Cleaning up the Chicago River could increase global warming emissions, argues water reclamation agency.
State wants to protect Great Lakes by closing shipping locks near Chicago.
Mercury — primarily released from coal-fired power plants — and PCBs found in all fish samples collected from 500 lakes, reservoirs from 2000-2003.
The Mississippi Delta loses 17 square miles of land to the sea each year. But diverting the river would enable sediment deposits to create new land.
The conservation of the river is intertwined with the livelihoods of the people who use it.
Dredging has removed more than 240,000 cubic yards of river sediment contaminated by chemicals discharged from a GE plant.
