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the perilous journey of the Pacific salmon from the sea through the forest rivers to spawn in its creeks.

The bears who feast on the spawning salmon don't eat on the river oe they drag the carcasses far into the forest.

reducing global land-use change and also mean fewer reservoirs and river diversions for irrigation oe currently 70%of our freshwater use goes on agriculture.

Only Egypt survived in the long term, thanks to the Nile river. Today's cities are at risk from a different set of issues.

water that drains rivers, fish from the oceans, and energy which requires the plunder of yet more land.

rivers swim with fish and populations of animals that have become rare in the countryside are thriving in urban niches.

where whole river systems are polluted and the soils degraded by intensive farming. But safeguards in Europe, including using only a small amount of fertiliser where needed,

and providing catchment reed beds that filter out any runoff before it enters the river, have reduced greatly the problem there.

As with all fertilisers, manure runoff can also pollute rivers and oceans with eutrophication (death by oxygen starvation.

for example, increasing the number of structures in the Nile valley including 17 new pyramids. In August, two more were found using images from Google earth.

and the trappings of life has depleted the forests, polluted rivers and soils and even carved the tops of mountains.

acid rain poisoned rivers, lakes and soils, eroded buildings and monuments; refrigerant chemicals ate away at the protective ozone layer;

like the local people, with a bucket of cold water and a pouring scoop oe usually river water,

Why damming world's rivers is a tricky balancing actwe remain desperately dependent on water for our survival.

Freshwater is so valuable that even today with our sophisticated hydroengineering systems, more than half the world's population lives within 3 kilometres (2 miles) of a surface body of freshwater such as a lake or river.

Just 0. 008 of 1%of all the water On earth is held on the surface in rivers,

Environmental losstwo-thirds of the world's major rivers have now been disrupted with more than 50,000 dams in an attempt to store water

stoppering large and small rivers, and in most cases utterly transforming natural flow. The most famous of these, the Hoover dam, constructed in the 1930s

is largely responsible for the fact that the mighty Colorado river no longer reaches the ocean. And that's the problem.

because the river volume is no longer adequate to meet the need oe causing the urban weight to sink,

which is planning to dam Patagonian rivers, and Laos, which plans to dam the Mekong,

rely on energy imports and so hydro is a very attractive domestic option. Other countries, such as Brazil which is planning the world's third largest dam at Belo Monte, China

The Aswan dam on Egypt's Nile for example, was highly controversial when it was built in the 1960s.

Yet for all the environmental damage to its downstream river system, you'd be pushed hard to find an Egyptian that advocates its removal.

000 sq km per year, according to the Food and Agricultural organization of the United nations), rerouting rivers (we manage more than half of the planet's available freshwater)

and other excavation shifts four times the amount moved naturally by glaciers and rivers. We are changing the numbers

oealthough such effects are minimised by the purification processes performed before wastewaters are discharged into rivers or to the coast.

just like manure is reused as fertiliser in agriculture. oethe problem is that in many cases our rivers have a very low water level

The red land of the eastern river is a place where one almost can not find it in Chinas tourist maps.

The red land of the eastern river is a place where one almost can not find it in Chinas tourist maps.

He has been attending a football academy on the edge of downtown Bamako, near the banks of the Niger river,

There is significant evidence that our growing preference for digital media is having a profoundly negative impact on our forests and the health of our rivers.

But youll also have skylights over your bed, a river right outside, and access to the glass observation area for everything from birdwatching to stargazingnd isnt that better than your childhood playhouse?

and the Amazon river with eco-tourism adventures and refuel after a long day at open-air restaurants stocked with local food.

4.)The young elk pictured here was delivered from a flooding river by a farmer in South korea in July 2009.

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Santa cruz Mission State Historic Park Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park Shasta State Historic Park South Yuba River State Park

The drug enters rivers from the sewer system and tinkers with the brain chemistry of fish, the researchers claimed.

This quaint Midwestern city with the Missouri river winding through it has strong roots in Native american culture

On a recent Tuesday evening, Emilee Rivers, 16, sifted through a pile of rooster saddle feathers looking for the perfect strands to frame her face.

who bonded them together with hot glue before clipping them into Rivers blond hair. Brandi Wheeler, 16, was next.

#Rivers said. She went to the salon with her mom, Kristi, who totally gets it.

My dad on the other hand, hes so confused,#Rivers said. I told him what I was doing

When volcanoes spew forth their rivers of molten lava, we are able to witness the creation of new rocks.

A city along a river may include facilities for managing fishing competitions, while a city in the mountains may want to focus on mountain climbing competitions.

the economies of the communities dependent on flowing rivers are also hit hard by the droughts.

Many people rely on the river systems as a mode of transportation and connection to other people,

With the rivers drying up, their livelihoods are disappearing. And of course there are also the species who call the rainforests home#their habitat is disappearing from drought in the same way that logging industries are cutting down wide swaths of trees.

This tribe was spotted at the mouth of the Envira river in western Brazil, not far from the Peruvian border.

The earth s atmosphere is a far more elegant water distribution system than rivers, reservoirs, and underground waterways.

As the spring sun climbed higher, glinting off the placid Elbe river, some cranes nestled containers into towering metal racks on the ship s deck while others lifted boxes out.

Only Egypt survived in the long term, thanks to the Nile river. Illinois Farmedhere grows crops within a city warehouse

For the nonprofit, conserving America s rivers meant growing America s barley, one of the primary ingredients in one of our favorite cold beverages

while trying to protect freshwater mussels in the Flint River. It found that if it could divert water from fields,

#China s dead pig dumping scandal Over 16,000 dead pigs have been found in China s rivers.

The#oedead animals in Chinese rivers#toll seems to have stabilized. According to recent reports, over 16,000 dead pigs have been joined by 1, 000 dead ducks and, rather ominously, 13 dead black swans in China s rivers.

The discovery of so many carcasses has elicited no small amount of public concern in China, as well as mockery elsewhere#even Jay Leno got into the act.

At this point, then, the fast-flowing river nearby looked like a pretty attractive solution to an annoying (and smelly) dead pig problem.

more reliable pork for Chinese consumers#nd will perverse incentives to dump dead livestock in the river.

The New River Library branch of the Pasco County Library System in Florida has Teen Technology Tutors who receive volunteer hours by tutoring older adults (ages 50+)one-on-one

#Poudre River Public library District, Fort Collins, CO) A birthday party (for a fish!:##oethe Library fish, Dewey and Decimal are extremely popular and most young patrons stop for a quick visit

River Forest Public library in River Forest, Illinois) Kansas Hog-butchering demonstration (Central Resource Library, Overland Park, KS)# entioned in a recent Wall street journal article

Projects such as the 2005 Cooper River Bridge, which connects downtown Charleston and Mount Pleasant, have helped outlying areas thrive.

This forces natives in places like South africa and India to collect water from polluted streams and rivers

while at the same time reducing the amount of runoff that could flow into nearby rivers and streams.

and compared those crops to a control group that used soil from the nearby banks of the Rhine river.

This tripped-off 13 hydro-power turbines operated by BPA at Mcnary Dam on the Columbia river.

where fields are drenched with water and the excess runs off into nearby streams and rivers.</

Around the world most farming relies on flood irrigation where fields are drenched with water and the excess runs off into nearby streams and rivers.

The worst of these techniques is the use of large nets (including dragnets seines and driftnets

History's 10 Most Destructive Volcanoes The most recent eruption in both countries was at the Blue River lava flow in Lava Fork

-million-square-mile area (6 million square kilometers) surrounding the Amazon river. They found that approximately 16000 tree species made up this region.

Ntã'ni Kisã djã leader of the Kisã djã people in the Xingu river basin in Mato grosso Brazil has a different perspective.

#Amazon river'Breathes'Carbon dioxide from Rain forest Bacteria living in the Amazon river can digest woody materials shed by the surrounding rain forest by turning these pieces of tree bark

and stems into carbon dioxide as they are washed down the river according to a new study. The findings bolster the Amazon basin's reputation as being the lungs of the planet taking in carbon dioxide

Researchers at the University of Washington found that bacteria in the Amazon river can break down almost all of the tree

and plant materials in the water and this process is a major generator of the carbon dioxide breathed by the river.

Rivers were thought once of as passive pipes study co-author Jeffrey Richey a professor of oceanography at the University of Washington in Seattle said in a statement.

This shows they're more like metabolic hot spots. The World's Longest Rivers To thrive plants convert sunlight carbon dioxide

or get washed into the river during periods of rainfall. Food for the river Previously it was believed that much of this plant matter floated down the Amazon river to the ocean where it ultimately became buried in the seafloor.

A decade ago scientists at the University of Washington discovered that rivers exhale vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere

but it was known still not if or how river bacteria could break down such tough materials the researchers said.

People thought this was one of the components that just got dumped into the ocean Nick Ward a doctoral student in oceanography at the University of Washington

and basically turned into carbon dioxide as it travels down the river. A compound called lignin forms the main part of a tree's woody tissue

But rather than flowing into oceans and settling on the seafloor for centuries or millennia bacteria in the Amazon river can break lignin down within two weeks the new study found.

The carbon cycle While these findings have important implications for global carbon models they also shed light on the ecology of the Amazon as well as other river ecosystems.

It's a mechanism for the rivers'role in the global carbon cycle it's the food for the river breath.

From their analysis the researchers determined that about 40 percent of the Amazon's lignin breaks down in soils 55 percent is digested by bacteria in the river system

Stumps and logs have been popping out from under southern Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier a 36.8-square-mile (95.3 square kilometers) river of ice flowing into a lake near Juneau for nearly the past 50 years.

and we probably would have a major shortage on the Colorado river and the Rio grande and other rivers upon

The snowstorms in Washington D c. and New york and the flooding and the freezing on the River Thames the extreme weather will continue to be extreme

Under the plan they would be reintroduced to a grassland area near the lower Innoko and Yukon rivers according to the Dispatch.

Maleos at The bronx Zoo are provided with deep river sand which is heated electrically from below so that the birds can find a warm spot to bury their eggs.

In addition the panda's primary habitat is located in the forests of China's Yangtze Basin region the capital of China's economic boom.

or skipping the life-giving Nile floods. The pyramids were built to properly prepare the king for that journey Redding said.

 He assumed half the protein came from meat some from Nile fish. Then he looked at the breeds of cattle found in ancient Egypt

which would have required 640 square miles about 5 percent of the Nile Delta. It would have required almost 19000 people to raise that many animals almost 2 percent of the kingdom's population.

Other think they were shipped in on the river. Every two years representatives of the central government went into the field

and fed by the Pripyat River was created to provide cooling water for the reactor. The nearest town to the power plant was built the newly city of Pripyat

Like a river saliva washes out some of the bacteria in the mouth she said.

Thousands of dead bloated pigs floating down the river that supplies Shanghai with its drinking water.

In January a chemical accident leaked benzene a known cancer-causing agent into a tributary of the Huangpu River (where the dead pigs were discovered.

Last December shortly after his sister died of lung cancer at age 35 businessman Jin Zengmin from Zhejiang province offered a 200000-yuan ($32000) reward to any local environmental official who would swim in a nearby river

The river is now black with sludge from an upstream shoe factory. His reward remains uncollected.

Blinding dust storms mud-choked rivers and eroded topsoil are often the result of desertification.

In Shangba a city in southern Guangdong province the river that flows through town changes from white to a startling shade of orange because of varying types of industrial effluent Reuters reports.

Many of the river's contaminants like cadmium and zinc are known to cause cancer. All the fish died even chickens

and ducks that drank from the river died. If you put your leg in the water you'll get rashes

When a juvenile dusky parrot (Pionus fuscus) fell into the river they fished the bird out

The mountainous region holds the headwaters of Suriname's largest rivers making it key for sustainable drinking water agriculture and energy production.

The Conservation International team found that water quality was high in the region's upper Palumeu River watershed where they surveyed four sites.

And less timber-cutting means better water quality in nearby rivers and in the fragile Mesoamerican Reef downstream in the Gulf of mexico.

In China's Yangtze basin wetland ambassadors''promote conservation as part of a rapidly emerging movement to protect a river system that supplies water to more than 400 million people.

Our river-basin conservation work has produced measurable success and with the help of community partners has expanded from 11 countries to 49.

Other participants in the ongoing bear research study include the U s. Forest Service the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service the Wind River tribe and the wildlife agencies for Idaho Montana Wyoming.

The farmers responding to the survey grew cover crops on an estimated 218000 acres in 36 states mostly in the Mississippi river basin.

and the dog who does not get to go for one more run by the river are both having desires thwarted to the same degree totally.

In 2002 a plane inadvertently dumped thousands of gallons of fire retardant into the Fall River in Oregon causing the immediate death of roughly 21000 trout whitefish

And in 2009 fire retardant dropped near the Santa ynez River in California killed about 50 protected steelhead trout.

China has more than 10 flagship species including Amur tigers musk deer and the Yangtze finless porpoise according to WWF.

at the Sagehen Creek Field Station near Truckee Calif. as well as the American River Ranger District of the Tahoe National Forest.

A fire is burning in the treated area of the American River Ranger District. Once the fire dies out the team will have a rare chance to see how the new technique worked in action Conway said.

and turtles find the river or beach where they hatched after years at sea. The distances covered by some species run into thousands of kilometres.

During the day they rest play and sometimes fight in lakes rivers and swamps. They get down to business at night grazing on land for hours at a time.

and walk along river and lake bottoms. Hippos are adapted well to their amphibious lifestyle. They have wide snouts

They can be found near rivers lakes and swamps from Guinea in western Africa to Ethiopia on the eastern side of the continent and down to South africa.

and fat beneath their skin helps them float in rivers and lakes. Adult hippos can hold their breath and stay underwater for up to six minutes.

and as much as half of their diet usually consists of marsh or river plants. A moose stomach can hold up to 112 pounds (51 kg) of food at one time.

Despite its rotund appearance the devil is capable of surprising feats of strength climbing trees and swimming across rivers.

 George walked the 10 miles several times a week to attend the School for African american Children in Neosho Kan.

and agricultural land for the herders and this number triples to about 465 square miles (1205 square km) of land an area about the size of modern-day Los angeles. Even so this area would take up just about 5 percent of the present-day Nile

These herds would have been spread out in villages across the Nile Delta then brought to the workers'town at Giza to be slaughtered and cooked.

the sanctuary of Artemis Orthia beside the Eurotas the river the temple of Athena Chalcioecus (oeof the Bronze House) on the acropolis and the early Roman theater just below it.

and record-breaking crop-damaging weather that has played havoc with agriculture in his state in recent years starting with a 500-year flood along the Missouri river in 2008

Stages of Cherry Blossom Blooms Three years later the Japanese sent more than 2000 young trees to be planted near the Potomac river as a symbol of the growing friendship between the two nations.

These forest islands were thought typically of as natural in origin for instance as landforms cut away by shifting rivers or long-term termite mounds or bird rookeries.

This research has been involved with a 50-year $626 million effort on the lower Colorado river that shows major genetics-based differences in the success of different populations that the Bureau of Reclamation

and trailer because the nearby Redwillow River was so high. But in 2011 the researchers drove a truck across the river winched the boulder onto a trailer

and brought it out of the field. While Bell was preparing the fossil he discovered something even more amazing than skin impressions.

what would become the United states. It was located on Jamestown Island In virginia about 30 miles (47 kilometers) up the James river from the Atlantic coast.

I and the settlement and James river were named in his honor it was financed actually and run by the Virginia Company.

It was believed widely at the time that the fort had been washed away into the James river. Excavations revealed that the archaeological remains were still present.

I organized a canoe expedition down the Athabasca River. The river is part of a lush watershed that flows through the heart of tar-sands mining

and drilling operations in Canada's pristine boreal forests. My goal was to draw attention to the dual threats of global warming

The river is declining as a result of receding glaciers and smaller snowpacks both of which are consequences of a warming climate.

and millions more gallons of toxic waste that would leach into the rivers from tailings ponds

Since I paddled down the Athabasca River the environmental devastation of the region has worsened only

The St lawrence river provides the lake s outlet to the Atlantic ocean. The lake has a number of lagoons and baymouth bars

By 8: 50 a m. massive mudflows were moving through the river systems to the west and southeast of Mount st helens.

Amazonian Butterflies Drink Turtle Tears The sight of butterflies flocking onto the heads of yellow-spotted river turtles in the western Amazon rain forest is not uncommon at least

China's Fuhe River was clogged last week with over 100 tons of dead silvery fish.

Officials attributed the deaths to toxic levels of ammonia dumped into the river from a local chemical factory.

which winds for 2 miles up through the forest ending along an abandoned logging road that offers a stunning view of the triplet of volcanic peaks known as the Three Sisters according to Oregon Lakes & Rivers.

Victory in battle features prominently in these narratives with one example showing Louis with his army crossing the Rhine river in 1672. oehair streaming dressed in Roman style

and rivers can save farmers money and help improve the quality of their soil. We call this combination of higher efficiency

They constitute a large percentage of all living matter in oceans rivers and lakes. One species Didymosphenia geminata is responsible for creating thick blooms in mountain streams and ponds.

which includes river watersheds that supply drinking water to San francisco and many other California cities. Only 287 firefighters (down from more than 4500 in late August) continue to mop up hot spots

from the Southern Rhone. Given that most grapevines produce fruit for 25 to 50 years grape growers

Happily there's a third way one that could aid both our anemic economy and equally anemic rivers.

and rivers raising revenues and boosting meaningful job growth in rural areas. What's not to like?

and replenish shrunken rivers. It's true that this approach will require that environmentalists jettison the outmoded notion that

was an innovation of the Pre-classic period writes Yale university Professor Michael Coe in his book The Maya (Thames and Hudson 2011).

The area studied is called the Yuba Fan built up around the Yuba River that runs out of the Sierra nevada mountains north of Sacramento not far from California s verdant wine country. oethe Yuba fan is created totally artificial by humans said Singer

The sediment washed downstream Singer said actually forming new river valleys and terraces the fan.

The fine scale of the map allows researchers to zoom in close enough to see logging roads river meanders

a nature island with waterfalls rivers different kinds of trees flowers plants grass rocks a beach and dirt paths;

Flowing rivers More strong evidence of Mars'wet past comes from Curiosity s discovery of calcium sulfate veins fissures in the surface rock that once sampled with a laser-firing instrument called Chemcam

And then there are the ancient river deposits. Â One such feature of the Martian landscape studied by Curiosity

Features resembling Shaler are formed commonly by rivers here On earth; turbulent water creates dunes on the riverbed

And these look exactly like the sort of features I ve looked at On earth formed by ancient rivers Gupta added.

In the United states the Bureau of Reclamation released a report on the status of the Colorado river Basin in December 2012.

The study concluded that over the next 50 years water supply from the Colorado river will be insufficient to meet the demands of its adjacent states including Arizona New mexico

Water flows into Lake Powell nestled between Utah and Arizona from high in the Rocky mountains via the Colorado river.

Greenberg is also part of a working group looking for agricultural solutions to water shortages along the Colorado river.

Fights over water rights are causing political conflicts and instability in such places as the Nile valley and the Indian subcontinent.

For example the Tigris river flows from Turkey to Iraq so ensuring Iraq's supply requires conservation from Turkey a political problem that requires international negotiations.

or other sources creates runoff that carries pesticides into local rivers and often out of the local watershed Boccaletti told Livescience.

1 kilogram) produced according to the United nations'UN-Water program could be produced in the Amazon river Basin the largest watershed in the world.

People who rely on the Colorado river are facing that problem now. A June 2013 study in the journal Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society suggests that the low flows will worsen in the future.

To protect the resource everyone who relies on the river must agree on a new way to allocate its waters Greenberg said.

or diverting water from the Mississippi river to politically unpopular solutions such as decommissioning water-based power plants and limiting population growth.

Currently the legal regime that governs water use for the Colorado river States the Laws of the Rivers make water a use-it

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