One approach that has gone from blue-sky debate to meaningful reality over the past 50 years is to give elements of the natural world – trees, rivers and mountains – legal rights and allow ...

Washington, DC – A team of WWF scientists has developed data and created maps of the world's rivers that provide researchers with a host of valuable information about where streams and watersheds ...

Gleason’s conclusion: “Holy cow, the rivers of the world are a lot different than we thought.” Some are changing by 5% or 10% a year, the report found. “That’s rapid, rapid change,” he ...

Dark red pools of meltwater from acid rock drainage on Pastoruri peak in the Cordillera Blanca, a Peruvian mountain range containing the world’s largest concentration of tropical glaciers.