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Of the 177 environmental activists killed around the world last year, 60 were murdered in Colombia, says the advocacy group Global Witness. In most cases, no one is tried or convicted.

Munich's famous river wave, the Eisbachwelle, vanished after a dredging in early November. Authorities are working to resurrect the beloved wave but impatient surfers have also tried their own methods.

In the town of Juntas, in the city of Buenaventura, Colombia, the community gathers for Holy Week every year to celebrate the Manacillos festival, an ancestral ritual originating in the upper part of the Yurumangui River.

Atmospheric rivers are impacting the long-term drought in California.

Back in 1969, a polluted river in Ohio caught fire. The environmental disaster led Congress to enact the Clean Water Act in 1972.

A group of students contemplates the dilemma facing Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in 1805: where to spend the winter after they had reached the Pacific Ocean. Colin Fogarty of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports.

The governor of Texas says nearly 100 other people thought to have been along the Guadalupe River that night are still missing.

Moore says writing is mostly labor, but "2% of the time, usually at the very beginning of a book and the very end of a book, it feels like flying." She's the author of Long Bright River.

On Harlem River Blues, the singer-songwriter puts the staples of American music in the context of his adopted home. He infuses country, blues, soul and folk with the highs and lows for which New York is known -- inspiration and desperation, energy and exhaustion, working too much and great temptation.

All triathletes have been barred from practice swim in Paris river Sunday after poor water quality test results.