Charting a Crooked River’s Renaissance
It was just a small fire, one of many that had erupted on Ohio’s noxious Cuyahoga River over the years. But despite its minor nature, the Cleveland conflagration of June 22, 1969, became a sort of...
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Tilting at Turbines
The morning was clear and cold, with frost on the church steeple and the cemetery grass. I had a quick English breakfast at a white-cloth table, in my wetsuit, and drove to Newnham, a village on the...
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Before the Flood
Mike Kline ambles across the highway atop the Park Street Bridge, toward the guardrail overlooking the Roaring Branch River. It’s early summer, long after Vermont’s mountain snow has melted, so the...
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The Risky Business of Slicing the Pie
In this, the final installment, of the Miller-McCune.com series on the Colorado River, Ben Preston examines the cooperation between American and Mexican entities. The Colorado River conservation...
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Micro-Reserves Renew Life in Oaxacan Agriculture
In 2010, Mexico suffered “one of the most intense rain and hurricane seasons in its history, after having experienced, in 2009, the second-worst drought in 60 years,” noted President Felipe Calderon...
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California’s Delta Water Blues
“Complaints are everywhere heard that the public good is disregarded in the conflict of rival parties.” — James Madison, The Federalist, No. 10 Gilbert Cosio stands with his feet spread, one foot...
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Mississippi River Flooding Creates Louisiana, Venice Comparison
As spring thaws and storms dump water into middle America’s rivers, floods have been wreaking havoc along the Mississippi River and its watershed. Memphis has been hard hit, and thousands of acres of...
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Texas’ Thirst for Dams Bucks National Trend
When Richard Donovan saw the Lufkin Daily News on Dec. 14, 1998, a front-page story took him completely by surprise. It showed three proposed dams slicing across his beloved Neches River, a 416-mile,...
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Quake Rescues Reserve, Shakes Baja Fishing Town
The villages of the Colorado River delta in Mexico normally would be bubbling with excitement now about the coming high tides that produce a bounty of fish each spring. This is when a sea-going...
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