Britain is in the grip of an historic heat wave. With the mercury regularly reaching into the 80 and even the 90s this summer, it's now officially the driest summer on record since the mid-1930's. The ...

ITASCA STATE PARK, MINN. - Lake Itasca is almost as wild now as it was 193 years ago, when it was named by an explorer from Michigan seeking the true source of the Mississippi River. Some of the red ...

Historically, the Zambezi River in Southern Africa was believed to begin its journey at a spring in northwestern Zambia. A new study suggests the river actually starts off in a shallow depression in ...

Across hundreds of miles of Alaska’s North Slope, long-frozen ground is thawing. As it does, naturally occurring metals ...

However, new research has discovered that the actual source of the river lies in a shallow depression in Angola’s southern highlands, at the source of a river called the Lungwebungu (pictured above).

The owner of a Kendall Square plant is launching a project to generate steam for Boston and Cambridge by drawing water from the river that runs between them Policymakers have long wondered how to ...

At dawn, fog rose from the surface of the Charles River. On that morning last autumn, songbirds darted over the water as I kayaked downstream through a wide channel lined by maples and oaks in the ...

LONDON, Aug 12 (Reuters) - (This August 11 story corrects spelling of last name of engagement officer in paragraphs 5 and 7) The source of the River Thames has dried up further downstream than ever ...