My recent weeklong Mississippi River cruise on the American Queen took me back through history on the last overnight steam paddlewheeler plying the muddy waters between New Orleans and Memphis.

Rivers, typically flowing downhill, can surprisingly reverse course due to tides, floods, engineering, or ancient geological ...

GENEVA (AP) — A small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing through the debris, and the level of a newly created lake that raised worries ...

Environmental activists in Bakersfield have won an initial victory in their legal fight to keep water flowing in the Kern River, which for many years was reduced to a dry, sandy riverbed. A judge has ...

For more than 100 years, hydroelectric dams blocked the Klamath River in Oregon and northern California, impeding once abundant salmon runs. But that changed last year when the last of the dams was ...

Double, double, toil and trouble — come Oct. 13 you won't see any potions simmering on the Hudson River, but you may see a witch or two on a paddleboard. In its fifth year, the Sleepy Hollow SUP ...