From the second line of Robert Macfarlane’s new ode to nature, I was caught in the current, rushed along the rapids of his exploration into a question with fundamental consequences: Is this river — ...

“Is a River Alive?,” the new book by Robert Macfarlane, is gorgeously written but also windy and sentimental. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we ...

A river flows at scripture’s beginning. With its source in paradise, this river flows out of Eden before branching into the four rivers that water the then known world. Along with the misty springs ...

There’s been a lot of noise about the state of our rivers these past few years, and quite right too. An Environment Agency report in 2020 revealed that not a single river, lake or stream in England ...

In 2008 Ecuador ratified a new national constitution with a radical addition. In the first national declaration of its kind, articles 71 to 74 of the document granted rights to nature, recognizing ...

When Jawaharlal Nehru called dams “temples of modern India” in 1954, he was expressing a belief shared by all the dominant faiths: to dam a river was to develop a nation. Over the course of the ...

For many Americans, river cruising has become almost synonymous with pictures and videos of long, narrow ships gliding leisurely past European castles and iconic landmarks such as the neo-Gothic ...