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Ozarks at Large for Monday, July 25, 2016

We hear how some youths are spending their summer days helping improve Pea Ridge National Military Park. Roby Brock gives us a preview of this week's…

How more than 240 million gallons of sewage flowed into the Potomac River

NPR's Erika Ryan reports from the site of one of the nation's largest sewage spills ever — just outside of Washington, D.C. — in January.

Life Is Tough, Says Joan Rivers, So 'You Better Laugh At Everything'

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.

A young man living on a small river island known as a char heads out to catch a boat and cross the Brahmaputra River to the mainland, in Assam's Barpeta district. To live in Assam legally, people must be registered by the government. But some 4 million people have been excluded from the National Register of Citizens, a sort of statewide census.

In India's Assam State, Residents Of River Islands Face Uncertainty Over Citizenship

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.

Bangladeshi commuters use boats to cross the Buriganga River in the capital Dhaka in 2018. In July, Bangladesh's top court granted all the country's rivers the same legal rights as humans.

Should Rivers Have Same Legal Rights As Humans? A Growing Number Of Voices Say Yes

"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.

Dead fish lay on the bank of the Darling River near Menindee, Australia, Sunday, March 19, 2023.

Millions of dead fish have been found in an Australian river due to low oxygen levels

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.

Artist Doug Rosenberg (center) leads a group of volunteers to his guerrilla wetland in the Los Angeles River.

A guerrilla gardener installed a pop-up wetland in the LA River. Here's how — and why

Well-meaning city dwellers forgo permits and official procedure to rewild urban areas across the country. In downtown LA, artist Doug Rosenberg is trying to push the grassroots movement forward.

As Shell prepares to open a huge plastics plant, a nurdle patrol searches the Ohio River for plastic

The plan is to develop a baseline to monitor the river as Shell opens a large industrial complex this summer to make plastics.

Jace Miller’s farm in Central Arizona lost all of its water from the Colorado River on Jan. 1. As the drought persists across the West, people who rely on the river to survive are starting to feel the effects. (Peter O'Dowd/Here & Now)

'It's coming for everybody': Central Arizona farmers' access to Colorado River dries up completely

On Jan. 1, farmers in Pinal County, Arizona, lost the last remaining access they had to Colorado River water.

A year after Yellowstone floods, fishing guides have to learn 'a whole new river'

A year ago the Yellowstone River had its biggest flood in centuries. What that means for its world famous trout fishery is just now becoming clear.

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