The largest river island in the world is not Majuli but the massive Marajó Island in Brazil, which covers 40,100 km² at the mouth of the Amazon River. Learn about the largest fluvial island in the ...

This ecosystem is home to an extraordinary variety of plants and animals, accounting for about 25% of the world's terrestrial species.

For decades, scientists have generally thought that rivers emit more carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, than they take in. But ...

The Veterans Day Parade starts at 9:30 a.m. at the Toms River Shopping Center and then marches down Main and Washington ...

Maine described its HIV outbreak as a significant health concern, but the shutdown has kept a CDC team from coming to the state's aid.

Typhoon Halong devastated Alaska Native villages last month, uprooting homes and floating many of them miles away, some with ...

The Coast Guard breaks all-time record with 510,000 pounds of cocaine seized in fiscal year 2025, three times the annual ...

For the first time in more than a century, migrating salmon have climbed close to the headwaters of the Klamath River's most ...

The U.S’ largest district energy provider has started building a 35 MW heat pump complex in Massachusetts that will replace a natural gas boiler. The system will harness heat from the Charles River to ...

Sans Gordon Lightfoot and his song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," the Mighty Fitz would likely have disappeared from ...

Across hundreds of Alaskan communities, public schools are often the safest buildings where people can take shelter during disasters. After decades of state neglect, however, some have become ...

Mass crackdown on migrants follows deal signed with the EU to stem migration from source countries in Africa. Nouadhibou, ...