Oceans, Rivers & Maritime Environments

1+ hour, 1+ min ago   (784+ words) The Paraná River is rising along Paraguay’s borders with Brazil and Argentina after heavy rain upstream. Families have left their homes, and the Yacyretá dam downstream has issued an alert. At least 60 families have left their homes in Ciudad del…...

3+ hour, 19+ min ago   (332+ words) JACKSON, Wyo. — Long before European colonists set foot on what has become the United States, nomadic Tribes inhabited the area now known as Wyoming. Many Tribes passed through and lived in what is now the Jackson Hole valley. Grand Teton…...

14+ hour, 44+ min ago   (156+ words) Published 12 Oct.2026 15:55(KST) An academic forum examining how the experiences of the 1624 maritime diplomatic mission were captured in written records and visual materials will be held on October 15 in the main auditorium of the National Incheon Maritime Museum. The forum…...

5+ hour, 23+ min ago   (419+ words) Length separates the rivers, but their drainage basins are remarkably close in area. The National Park Service puts the Mississippi watershed at about 3.2 million square kilometers, or 1.2 million square miles. The Nile Basin Initiative gives the Nile basin essentially the…...

11+ hour, 3+ min ago   (718+ words) Put those four together and you have described the lower Mississippi valley and the Gulf and South Atlantic coastal plains, which is exactly where the cottonmouth lives. The Atchafalaya Basin is the largest wetland and swamp in the United States,…...

11+ hour, 46+ min ago   (1303+ words) include the Columbia, Colorado, Snake, and Missouri, where dams power cities, water farms, and reshape river ecosystems. During the 19th and 20th centuries, America's rivers were harnessed to help power a growing nation. Engineers, often from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1710+ words) The Battle of Lepanto was fought at the entrance to the Gulf of Patras, off the western coast of Greece, between the Greek mainland and the Peloponnese. More than 400 warships converged on the narrow waters. For roughly five hours, the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (164+ words) The United States’ scorching summer of 2026 was a record-breaker, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announce… (The Center Square) - The Colorado River’s Upper Basin states are not required to make mandatory water cuts that the federal government impose…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (389+ words) Melbourne Maritime Heritage Network (MMHN) has plenty happening around Docklands this October, from a rare chance to step aboard a historic Sea Shepherd vessel to student art, creative writing and a new partnership celebrating Victoria’s fishing heritage. During the Melbourne…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (542+ words) Those are weirs rather than barriers. The river flows over them, the seasonal flood still arrives, and fish can move past. That is the distinction between a dammed river and a free-flowing one, and it is why the Yellowstone keeps…...