EMMET COUNTY — After a quarter of a century, the Conservation Resource Alliance (CRA) has completed its "Free Spanning the Maple River" initiative. From beginning to end, all infrastructure such as ...

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 ...

For members of the Klamath basin tribes who had fought for the river dams’ removal and organized the historic first descent of the newly free-flowing waters, the signing of an international accord ...

While work crews continued dismantling dams on the Klamath River, leaders of four tribes gathered on a riverbank last week to watch and offer prayers as a valve on a tanker truck was opened. From a ...

The Fox River is adapting to a new flow through Carpentersville as crews continue to work on removing a dam. Work crews are expected to be out of the river and the dam removed by Halloween or Nov. 1, ...

It’s Monday, November 21, and U.S. regulators have OKed the world’s largest dam removal project. After years of campaigning, tribes and environmental organizations achieved a major victory last week ...

The Zambezi River carrying sediment downstream. Free-flowing rivers are generally not included among lists of Nature-based Solutions (NbS). However, rivers that carry a natural sediment load are ...

The research demonstrates that biodiversity commitments will be key to global freshwater protection. New science about the fate of freshwater ecosystems released today by the journal Sustainability ...

Globally 16% of rivers are in protected areas, such as the Merced River in Yosemite National Park, but much of the world has far lower levels of protection and large rivers have considerably lower ...

The Salween River, at around 3,300 kilometers, or 2,000 miles, is Asia’s longest free-flowing river, running from Tibet through Myanmar to the Andaman Sea. But Indigenous groups and communities living ...