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Floating is a state of mind. Let KQED's playlist of house, jazz and indie-pop songs serve as a meditation break.

Autumn has arrived and NPR's Brian Mann sends a postcard from a wilderness paddle into fall color.

The mighty Mississippi River may be the only thing with the enduring power to clean the marshes and waterways damaged by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But to put the river to work requires a massive rerouting of the waterway not a piece meal approach.

More than half of the Colorado River's water is used to grow crops, primarily livestock feed, a new study finds. The river and its users are facing tough decisions as the climate warms.

The Peacemaker Music Festival returns to the River Valley this weekend, but there are many other options to catch live music throughout the coming…

Richard Thompson struggles with his emotional demons by creating some of his most searing and soaring guitar work.

"There is currently zero evidence of a tank breach or any leaks, and air and water monitoring resources are in place," according to Louisville Metro Emergency Services in Kentucky.

Each song on Cash's new album is rooted in the Southern soil connecting her family's old homestead in Arkansas to its ancestral Virginia homeland, expanding to survey its artistic roots in Alabama and Tennessee. Some narratives are fictional, while others mine family lore.

Patterson casts light on the assumption people make about a woman: that she's inexhaustibly strong, yet mysteriously dangerous. "I'm human, I'm human," she reminds us.

A rare white-colored buffalo calf was born in Yellowstone National Park this spring. It's interesting for tourists, but many Native Americans see it as the fulfillment of a prophecy.