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The polluted Cuyahoga River caught fire in June 1969. But a new generation is embracing the “Burning River” name.

If the water level at the country's second-largest reservoir drops about another 30 feet, the Glen Canyon Dam will be unable to create hydroelectric power.

Climate change is predicted to shrink the Colorado River. But right now, there's more snow melt than the river has seen in decades.

California is in the grips of an atmospheric river that's causing flooding all over the state. Climate change might be intensifying storms like it —but scientists are still working out the details.

-Donald Trump prepares for the White House and Asa Hutchinson prepares for Donald Trump. -The answers are in on pollution along the Buffalo National...

Pete speaks to the Beaver Watershed Alliance about their annual West Fork River cleanup.

A reckoning has come for cities and farms in the desert Southwest that were built to rely on the Colorado River.

Federal environmental officials and General Electric announce a deal for the long-delayed cleanup of the Hudson River. GE dumped more than a million pounds of PCBs into the river before the federal government banned the substance in 1977. Andrea Bernstein of member station WNYC reports.

Levels of pH in the Mulberry River are plummeting. For the past several years a team of researchers led by USDA Agricultural Research Service scientist…

Returns of toys and gadgets add up to more than $260 billion every year. Optoro, a startup in Maryland, tries to reduce the cost to retailers, and the cost to the environment.