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Topic: rivers

A view of the famous 'Morant's Curve' offering a beautiful view of the frozen Bow River and the Canadian Pacific Railway at Banff National park near Lake Louise, Canada, late on December 06, 2013. (Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Does a river have legal rights?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Santa Cruz River in Southern Arizona (Courtesy of Michael Bogan)

How sewage helped restore a desert river

Matthew Rozsa
NW Iowa Little Sioux River (Getty Images/lynngrae)

Iowa floods bring risk of "fecal soup"

Marin Scotten
An aerial view of the rust-colored Kutuk River in Gates of the Arctic National Park in Alaska. Thawing permafrost is exposing minerals to weathering, increasing the acidity of the water, which releases metals like iron, zinc and copper. (Ken Hill / National Park Service)

Climate change making rivers orange

Matthew Rozsa
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A worker harvests salt from an evaporation pond at a salt factory on May 14, 2021 in Leizhou, Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province of China. (Zhan Youbing/VCG via Getty Images)

Earth is getting too salty, experts warn

Matthew Rozsa
The surface of Titan, Saturns largest moon (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

How rivers on Titan and Mars flow

Nicole Karlis
Lost River Caverns in Hellertown, Pennsylvania (Wiki Commons/Horseluv10)

The world is full of mystery rivers

Matthew Rozsa
The Klamath River flows through Oregon and Northern California. (Getty Images/Elis Cora)

River restoration changes ecosystem

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
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Young female and male environmentalist cleaning lake while picking plastic from claw (Getty Images/Maskot)

Biden plans to clean up the Great Lakes

Eric Schank
The Animas River flows through the center of Durango (Brent Lewis/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

US rivers are changing color

Matthew Rozsa
File - In this Saturday, Feb. 13, 2017, file photo, water flows down Oroville Dam's main spillway, near Oroville, Calif. Over six days, operators of the tallest dam in the United States, struggled to figure out their next move after raging floodwaters from California's wettest winter in decades gouged a hole the size of a football field in the dam's main water-release spillway. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) (AP)

Long rivers blocked by infrastructure

Rachel Ramirez - Grist
High water cover the road in the Box Town neighborhood as a waste can floats Sunday, May 8, 2011 in Memphis, Tenn. as flood waters continue to rise along the Mississippi River. (AP Photo/Wade Payne) (AP)

US rivers becoming saltier

Sujay Kaushal, Gene E. Likens, Michael Pace, Ryan Utz - The Conversation
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(AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Make the Rio Grande grand

Gabriel Diaz Montemayor - The Conversation

Reynard Loki - Alternet
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7 motor-friendly campgrounds

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