Scientists evaluated nine major European rivers, including the Thames and Tiber, and found microplastics in all of them, according to Phys.org. On average, the team found three microplastics per cubic ...

Torrential rainfall through Sunday night triggered widespread, life-threatening and catastrophic flash flooding centered on the mid-Mississippi and Ohio valleys. In the next few weeks, runoff from the ...

America's longest rivers carve through mountains, plains, deserts, and cities, creating some of the country's most beautiful ...

The rivers in Southern California are an enigma, and by some observer’s standards, their meager, seasonal flows wouldn’t even qualify as a “real river.” But few places in the world have captured, ...

A sequence of atmospheric rivers will bring heavy rainfall and snow to the Western U.S. and Canada over the next week. By Judson Jones Judson Jones is a meteorologist and reporter for The Times. The ...

Improvements to Boston’s three major rivers are slowing or stalled, and climate change is a major culprit. The assessment, from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's annual report card, covers ...

School's out, and grades are in for Boston's three major rivers. The Mystic, Neponset and Charles Rivers continue to get cleaner, according to an annual report card from a coalition of watershed ...