Yichang city in Central China's Hubei province is home to the country's key water control projects, the Gezhouba Dam and the ...

In 1638, during his last expedition, Ming Dynasty explorer Xu Xiake reached the banks of the Jinsha River in modern-day Yunnan province. Defying established authorities with solid proof based on ...

Four U.S. Presidents have received Nobel Peace Prize — each for shaping global diplomacy in unique ways. As Donald Trump ...

On June 25, 1950, more than 135,000 North Korean troops invaded South Korea, starting the Korean War that cost millions of ...

Vulnerable communities were told to seek refuge on higher ground as multiple rivers burst their banks after days of rain in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

There were separate gatherings of Thai protesters on the Mekong River in Chiang Sean and upstream on the Kok River in Tha Ton. On June 5, 2025, some 1,500 people gathered in Chiang Rai to demand ...

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.

A May 31 New York Times column by Robert McFarlane, author of Is a River Alive?, celebrates the demolition of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River in northern California, thus providing ...