Water is a frequent image in Bach’s music. Placid rivers sing the praises of enlightened monarchs. Other streams rush by, murmuring their eternal truths ...

Tim Marshall analyses the limits of Vladimir Putin's global ambitions from an extract of Prisoners of Geography ...

The resuspension of seafloor sediments—triggered by human activities such as bottom trawling as well as natural processes ...

Like farmland in Australia, native forests struggle with drought and flooding, so future management decisions need more ...

(AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura) As seen from Pier 40 in New York, police and fire crews from New York and New Jersey respond to the scene where a helicopter crashed into the Hudson River, Thursday ...

A new species of gudgeon was discovered in the Ural River of western Russia. Turbanov IS, Bolotovskiy AA, Artaev ON, Gandlin ...

The Baltic Sea is now an operational area dominated by NATO members. Nevertheless, it is not yet a NATO lake with Russia, ...

Three weeks ago, we boldly decided to escape a world so drenched in misinformation it felt like we’d fallen into a Gogol ...

An overlooked Antarctic water system could raise sea levels by more than 2 meters by 2300, computer simulations show.

Peru’s Marañón River was made a legal person, granting it the rights to be free-flowing and free of contamination. Mari Luz ...

Young salmon in central Sweden must endure a gauntlet to migrate from their freshwater spawning grounds to the Baltic Sea. Their 28-km route along the Dal River is rife with danger, from northern pike ...

New study offers some of the most compelling real-world evidence yet that pharmaceutical pollution is messing with wildlife ...