The tea-hued waters of the Los Angeles River were running knee-deep and mostly free of harmful bacteria recently when George Wolfe stepped into the belly of a bobbing, 16-foot canoe. “Let’s go for a ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

In 2021, Scott Miller, a 47-year-old nurse from Minneapolis, made his first attempt to break the record for paddling the entire 2,350-mile length of the Mississippi River. At the time, the fastest ...

Participants faced treacherous weather during this year's MR340 race, forcing organizers to end it early. At one point, paddlers say tree trunks the size of tractor-trailers were floating down the ...

Logan MacLennan, of White River Junction, plays Old Crow Medicine Show’s “Wagon Wheel” on the bandstand in White River Junction near Hartford Town Hall on Monday, July 10, 2023. Photo by Maggie ...

Over the last two years, I have traveled repeatedly to the Klamath River near the California-Oregon border to report on the dismantling of four dams. I saw crews in excavators as they clawed at the ...

PHOENIX – The last of the four dams that nearly destroyed salmon populations on the Klamath River at the California-Oregon border was demolished last week, marking a significant victory for tribes and ...

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 ...

Grab your tubes, it's time to float down the Catawba River in South Carolina. Why it matters: It's a fun and free activity when the weather gets warm, and it's only about 30 minutes from Charlotte.

When director, Curtis Hanson, decided to strap Meryl Streep into an inflatable boat and send her on a whitewater rafting trip down the Salmon River in Idaho, we officially became indebted to that ...