Though eclipsed in popular memory by later 20th-century conflicts, the Korean War perhaps remains the longest-lasting — not ...

Heavy mountain runoff turned a normally calm river into raging rapids in China. Footage shows murky, swollen waters surging ...

Thailand is facing one of its most serious environmental crises as toxic pollution from rare earth mining in Myanmar’s Shan State contaminates the Kok and Sai rivers. Arsenic levels far exceed safety ...

Located at the eastern edge of Chongqing, Wushan, with its fleet of 36 debris cleaning riverboats, filters the Yangtze as it ...

China’s Medog Hydropower Station on the Brahmaputra, a new turning point in a highly-charged South Asian geopolitics ...

Have we broken the natural contract between humans and rivers? The nature writer debates our relationship with the world’s waterways that inspired his latest book, Is A River Alive?

A near-complete skull of a Denisovan, one of the closest extinct relatives of modern humans, has never been recovered – or so ...

Rescue workers are using rubber dinghies to evacuate people and deliver food and water after floodwaters overwhelmed towns in southern China’s Guangdong province.

The shores of Myanmar became visible from Sob Moei village in northeastern Thailand as the morning mist rises over the ...

Linguistics, working on sound shifts, has given us about 1,600 words in Proto-Indo-European, which no one has spoken in over ...

Water tests from the Kok and Sai rivers near Thailand’s border with Myanmar have revealed elevated arsenic levels, leading Thai officials to warn citizens to avoid contact with river water.

Grace Ilogene’s body was spotted floating in the fast-moving East River just before 12:27 p.m. Friday – almost exactly one week after she was swept away by the current, the NYPD and sources said.