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Washington Savannah River Company officials are still puzzled as to how a shipping container that once held radioactive material managed to turn up at a Columbia scrap yard last month.
The 32-gallon drum – which had previously contained tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen …

Source: Chicago Sun-Times
More river news.

Source: Science Daily
Millions of gallons of hazardous waste resulting from the nation's nuclear weapons program lie in a remote location in southeastern Washington state called Hanford.

On November 2, 2007 members of the Flat River Band, Chad, Andy, and Dennijo Sitze entertain the patients at the Vanderbilt Muscular Dystrophy Clinic. This clinic is recognized officially as an ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) clinic.

Oregon Boom
View a video of the explosion!
First come the blasts: The thunderous sounds of more than 100 tons of explosives ripping through tightly packed soil.
Then, the water — more than 2,500 acres flooded.
Source: PRWeb
Today, The Nature Conservancy and partners will detonate approximately two miles of levees to restore wetlands at the Conservancy's 7,400 acre Williamson River Delta Preserve in southern Oregon.

Source: USA Today
A national conservation group plans to blow up 2 miles of levees Tuesday on Oregon's Upper Klamath Lake in an unprecedented move to improve wildlife habitat, water storage and water quality downstream.

Source: CNN
DuPont today announced a pledge of $250,000 to The Nature Conservancy in an effort to improve water quality in vital Midwestern watersheds and to further reduce excess nutrient runoff from agricultural fields.

Source: Shoreham Herald
A dolphin nicknamed Georges by marine conservationists, spent a day frolicking in the River Adur while searching for a mate.

Source: The Seattle Times
Calling it a "big science experiment," The Nature Conservancy hopes the addition of large woody debris in the Stillaguamish River estuary will provide needed benefits for juvenile salmon.

Nashville based, Indie artist , Flat River Band have released campaign / rally song for the Republican party. " Marching To The White House With Fred". Priscilla Woods wrote this song.

The Flat River band is currently working with a Nashville based entertainment company to help launch the first pod cast. The show will be airing the first week of September. The weekly pod cast will be titled "Five Minutes With the Flat River Band" The Journey.

Source: liveleak.com
Security Camera Footage Catches Bridge Collapse Marked as: Featured
Emergency workers in Minneapolis have shifted their focus from searching for survivors to trying to recover the bodies after a major bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River during rush-hour traffic on Wedn …

Source: local6.com
....Boaters and other watercraft riders are being hit and injured by giant jumping sturgeons at record pace within a 40-mile stretch of water in Florida. "People and sturgeons are colliding," ...

Source: Reuters
The riot of green vegetation that lines both sides of the Rio Grande river along the southeast Texas and Mexican border can give a canoeist the impression of gliding past unbroken wilderness.

Source: NPR
In Brazil, a rich carpet of green rolled over the Amazon River city of Santarem thirty years ago, a vibrant virgin forest.

Source: alertnet.org
Scores of corpses turn up every week in Baghdad, victims of unrelenting violence between majority Shi'ites and minority Sunni Arabs that is pushing Iraq to the brink of all-out civil war.

Source: The Austin American-Statesman
In deepest South Texas, a geographic quirk causes desert, coastal and subtropical influences to converge in an ecologically spectacular riverfront landscape found nowhere else on the continent.
Source: Welcome to StarNet
The Nature Conservancy and the federal government are buying development rights to a ranch along a key tributary to the San Pedro River.
The hope is that the purchase of a combined 1,410 acres of conservation easements for more than $5 million on the Babacomari Ranch in four sep …

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Travel Along Yang'zi River(the third longgest river in the world), China

Source: the Mail online
It was once a gently flowing river, where fishermen cast their nets, sea birds came to feed and natural beauty left visitors spellbound.
Villagers collected water for their simple homes and rice paddies thrived on its irrigation channels.

Source: conservation.org
Nesting ground found in Cambodia for rare endangered giant freshwater turtle which can strike faster than a cobra

Source: Yahoo! News
SEOUL, South Korea - They came from all over the world, poles in hand, and feet ready to inch more than half a mile across a high wire strung over the Han River in a spine-tingling battle of balance, speed and high anxiety.
Source: CNET News.com
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. Heavy rain flooded parts of a parkway in the New York City metropolitan area Friday morning, less than two weeks after a massive nor'easter deluged some areas that were still cleaning up.

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London River sailing water