HOUSTON—Three people including two children have drowned in separate weekend incidents while swimming at night near rural Houston-area parks along the San Jacinto River, according to authorities. A 6-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl were swimming in the river around 9 p.m. Saturday next to the Xtreme Offroad Park and Marina when they went under…

A momma grizzly bear showed some tough love when her cub got scared crossing a fast-flowing river after being chased off by bison. Photographer Ron Sterbenz of Minneapolis, Minnesota, was visiting Yellowstone National Park in mid-May when he caught a fascinating interaction on film. A female grizzly bear and her cub, who had their eyes on…

BUFFALO, Iowa—Dale O’Donnell bought his small brick home only 100 yards or so from the Mississippi River because he enjoys watching the river and wanted a good view from his front porch. He got his money’s worth Monday as the Mississippi crested at a near-record high just feet from his home, which was surrounded by…

A number of cities along the Mississippi River across the Midwest are facing major flooding events as of Wednesday morning, according to the National Weather Service’s river monitoring service. According to the NWS’s river flood monitoring website, approximately 20 gauges along the Mississippi River are seeing “major flooding” or “moderate flooding” as of Wednesday morning,…

 NR | 1h 15min | Documentary, Nature | 22 April 2023 (USA/Australia) Try as it might to be a newfangled attempt to warn viewers to the perils of mankind’s collective assault on the global ecosystem, the gorgeously shot but narratively bereft documentary “River” is a narrative train wreck. It achieves little beyond reminding general audiences why art house posturing and tree-hugging…

LOS ANGELES—The first in a new series of atmospheric rivers flowed into California on Thursday and forecasters warned that widespread heavy rain would raise the threat of flooding in a state still digging out from earlier storms. Rain spread across the north by early afternoon but forecasters said the heart of the atmospheric river wouldn’t…

SEATTLE—A company that operates a century-old hydroelectric dam near Mount Rainier National Park and its chief operating officer each pleaded guilty to a single criminal count Monday in connection with a spill of synthetic field turf and the tiny rubber particles used to make it into the Puyallup River in 2020. The company, Electron Hydro…

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—California released a plan detailing how Western states reliant on the Colorado River should save more water. It came a day after the six other states in the river basin made a competing proposal. In a letter to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, California described how states could conserve between 1 million and nearly…

MADRID—At least three people died and four were missing after a passenger bus careened off a bridge and plunged into a river in northwestern Spain, local emergency services said on Sunday. Two survivors—the vehicle’s driver and a passenger—have been rescued so far from the river Lerez, where a strong current and high flow due to…

Six people died and two were injured after a passenger bus careened off a bridge and plunged into an overflowing river in northwestern Spain, emergency services said on Sunday. Two survivors—the vehicle’s 63-year-old driver and a female passenger—were pulled out of the river by firefighters with rope and taken to nearby hospitals with varying degrees…