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Tuesday, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation officially declared the Lower Colorado River Basin has hit a "Tier 2" shortage, triggering new cuts in water usage for Arizona, Nevada and Mexico.

Nearly 400 bodies have been recovered. The toll is likely to rise — the Red Cross says hundreds of people are still missing. A local morgue is struggling to cope with the sheer number of dead.

The comic has made a career out of saying exactly what she thinks. She tells NPR's Scott Simon, "I'm the one who says, 'The emperor has no clothes.' " Her new book is Diary of a Mad Diva.

Some 4 million people, many Muslim and impoverished, were excluded from a 2018 official register of citizens. Photographer CK Vijayakumar visited Assam to learn more about the challenges they face.

"Environmental personhood" was once considered a fringe issue, but several countries have granted rivers within their borders legal person status. Bangladesh became the latest in July.

Millions of dead fish have been found dead in an Australian river due to dangerously low oxygen levels in the water caused by receding flood waters, government officials said.

On today’s show a man who knows what its like to help execute a prisoner; we continue our discussions about the death penalty as Arkansas prepares to…

On today's show, the fate of a controversial industrial swine breeding facility federally permitted five years ago to operate six miles upstream of the…

On today's show, we hear from a former Buffalo National River archeologist about the looting of prehistoric and historic sites in the Ozarks. Plus, the…