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Mexico has sent a diplomatic note to the U.S. expressing concern that barriers on the river may violate treaties on boundaries and water. Mexico has already asked that the barriers be removed.

Philip Reeves is an award-winning international correspondent covering South America. Previously, he served as NPR's correspondent covering Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India.

Photos of a father and his young daughter, drowned in the Rio Grande, underlined the deadly risks of the immigration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Martín Espada drew on them for his book Floaters.

Two hundred years after Lewis and Clark made their trek up the Missouri, the river has gone from a raging giant to a harnessed conduit. It's so docile some environmentalists want it restored to a more natural condition. NPR's Greg Allen reports.

Reggie Smith, the self-proclaimed "King of Tubing," has spent the past 23 years perfecting the art of floating down a river on an inner tube. Reporter Melanie Peeples joins Smith to learn some of the finer points of inner tubing.

Blanca Matos' home, which backs up against a river, has flooded, and re-flooded, nearly every day this week. After each rain, she mops the house, cursing the river.

Sometimes you need a good cry at the movies. Here are some of the best heartbreak films to get the tears flowing.

China is expected to reach a milestone when the giant reservoir behind Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River reaches its maximum height this year. But officials and residents alike have expressed concerns that the project could lead to environmental disasters.

One of fewer than 100 fluent speakers of the Arapaho language, she'll be missed on Wyoming’s Wind River Reservation.

The remains of 18th-century shipwrecks are on the shores of a river island near the frontline of Russia's war on Ukraine.