Rivers
A 17-Year-Old Is Killed and 4 Are Hospitalized in River Tubing Stabbing
One person was killed and four others were hospitalized on Saturday after they were stabbed in their mid-sections while tubing on the Apple River in Wisconsin, a popular summer spot that attracts visitors from across the region, the authorities said. The suspect, a 52-year-old man from Prior Lake, Minn., had left the scene but was […]
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Human Skull About 8,000 Years Old Is Found in Minnesota River
The two kayakers were enjoying the last glimmers of summer on the Minnesota River last September when they spotted an odd brown chunk along the bank. They paddled toward it and looked closer. It appeared to be a bone, so they called the Renville County Sheriff’s Office. When Sheriff Scott Hable was told of the […]
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Descending Into Florida’s Underwater Caves
Long before theme parks began sprouting from Orlando’s swamps, Florida’s freshwater springs were among the area’s main attractions. Indigenous Americans made use of the springs for thousands of years before Spanish conquistadors arrived in the 1500s. The conquistadors’ reports of clear water gushing from cavernous holes in forest floors fueled myths about the existence of […]
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Six Days Afloat in the Everglades
From a distance, the mouth of the creek was indistinguishable from the thick tangle of mangroves that concealed it — as if the narrow waterway were only willing to reveal itself to those who knew to look. We approached attentively, unhurriedly, scanning the banks for alligators and wading birds. Twenty feet in front of us, […]
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In Congo, Floating Pastors Follow Mobile Flocks Along Busy River
MBANDAKA, Democratic Republic of Congo — The ebullient soukous music had been blasting from speakers since before dawn, but at 8 a.m., someone aboard the brightly painted boat docked along the Congo River pressed pause, and a pastor picked up a microphone and began preaching at a volume easily heard on shore. “You will go […]
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Documenting Los Angeles’s Unlikely Urban Fishermen
It’s hard to imagine there was ever a time when the Los Angeles River was wild and free flowing, flanked by thick reed forests and full of steelhead trout — instead of clad in concrete and sandwiched between swollen expressways and freight-train tracks. Centuries ago, in the areas that are now the back sides of […]
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