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Outside
August 2007
Cameron Walker |
Blowout The removal of 47-foot high Marmot Dam, on Oregon's Sandy River, will renew 11.5 miles of quality Class IV whitewater and 100 miles of steelhead habitat. Taking down a dam used to require an act of Congress. Now it's just good business.   |
Geotimes
September 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Breaking Down Dams There is definitely a trend toward removing smaller dams, and environmental organizations also have their eyes on the removal of much larger dams. |
Geotimes
January 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Grand Canyon Floods On Nov. 21, the Department of the Interior approved a release of water from the Glen Canyon Dam in an attempt to rebuild the beaches and other sedimentary environments. |
Geotimes
August 2003
Neeta Bijoor |
China fills Three Gorges Dam Although the Three Gorges Dam is expected to boost China's economy and improve the standard of living, many wonder whether the benefits are worth the costs. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2010
Joe P. Hasler |
Investigating Russia's Biggest Dam Explosion: What Went Wrong Just before 8 am on Aug. 17, 2009, workers on the morning shift stepped off a clattering Soviet-era tram and made their way past security and into position at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power plant in south-central Siberia. |
Outside
August 2003
Patrick Symmes |
River Impossible Everybody loves the Klamath. Everybody wants a piece of it. And they're willing to go to war to get it. |
Outside
August 2003
Misty Blakesley |
Ecotourism Adventure Travel - Water in the Balance Water issues chronically become water wars. Here are some collisions in progress--from bang-ups over how to divide spoils to clashes over big cleanups--that need to be resolved in the years ahead. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2006
David Dobbs |
Taming An Icy River Hurricanes aren't the only cause of catastrophic flooding. Huge chunks of jamming ice can wreak havoc, too. |
Outside
June 2004
Mark Sundeen |
Dry Run on the River of Sorrows The Dolores used to be one of the mightiest whitewater rivers in the West. Then politics and dry weather got in the way. But neither drought nor dam nor partisan bickering can stop the author from floating (and walking and driving) the entire course of the Rio de Nuestra Senora de los Dolores. |
High on Adventure
April 2007
Lee Juillerat |
Traveling the Rogue From the Cascades to the Ocean The Rogue River is a magical river in Southern Oregon's Cascades. |
Smithsonian
September 2007
Whitney Dangerfield |
Snapshot: Yangtze River A virtual vacation along China's mighty waterway. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Adee & Moore |
In the American Southwest, the Energy Problem Is Water Energy producers on the Colorado River are struggling |
Finefishing Saltwater
Louis Bignami |
Saving Salar Atlantic Salmon need our help |
Popular Mechanics
May 2008
Erik Sofge |
Rebuilding America Special Report: How to Fix U.S. Infrastructure American infrastructure is in trouble, from collapsed bridges to leaking dams. Here are some fresh ideas, smart engineering and new technology that can be used to fix it. |
Mother Jones
December 2000
Bill Donahue |
The Same River Twice It's been a horror movie set, a sewer, a flood control ditch. Now environmentalists, and some politicians, are pushing a novel idea: They want to turn the Los Angeles River into... a river... |
BusinessWeek
June 9, 2011
Peter Heller |
The Mississippi River Flood and the Katrina Risk New Orleans and Baton Rouge are one breached levee away from Katrina-like devastation. Can the Army Corps of Engineers save them? |
Wired
February 2002
Steven Kotler |
Reengineering the Everglades For decades, the world's largest wetlands have been diked, dammed, diverted, and drained. Here's how massive earthmoving, underground plumbing, and statistical modeling are getting South Florida back to nature -- new and improved... |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2006
William Sweet |
Yangtze's Power Is Unleashed The last cofferdam -- a temporary structure standing between the waters of the Yangtze River and the main wall of the Three Gorges Dam -- was recently blown up. Three Gorges has likely been the most controversial damn project ever. |
Outside
April 2007 |
Tapped This report introduces you to the water heroes who are reversing the water crisis woes and showing us how to keep the planet afloat. |
Wired
September 2002
Jeff Howe |
The Great Thirst Drought and disease threaten to set off a water war in volatile Central Asia. US scientists are fighting back with a data-crunching system that could pump fresh hope into the region. Call it the New Hydronomy. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
G. Pascal Zachary |
Thirst For Power Can thousands of small dams solve Africa's power crunch? |
Real Travel Adventures
February 2006
Janice Lovelace |
Eagles Soar A great place to find Bald Eagles in the winter is to head to northern Washington state, to the Nooksack River valley and the Skagit River valley. |
Outside
April 2007
Patrick Symmes |
Leaping Tiger, Drowning River The world's greatest Communist supereconomy needs all the power it can get. With dams rising up all around, the author joins a team of Chinese and American rafters as they outrun the concrete on a wild descent of the Yangtze. |
Outside
March 2010
Elizabeth Hightower |
The Wild File: Dead Pool A dead pool is the level at which water can no longer be released from a reservoir and it may be happening sooner than you think. |
Geotimes
May 2004
Swarzenski & Campbell |
Tracking Contaminants Down the Mississippi The U.S. Geological Survey is working with scientists from various universities and state agencies to investigate the historic downstream delivery of sediment-associated contaminants into the Gulf of Mexico. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Barry E. DiGregorio |
Climatologists and River Agency Butt Heads About Future of Southwest's Hydroelectric Power Will hydropower from Hoover Dam end in 2013, 2017, or just keep going? |
Outside
November 2002
Tom Price |
Queen of the Dammed With western drought lowering Lake Powell daily, Glenn Canyon fans dream of going all the way. |
Outside
June 2010
Patrick Symmes |
The Beautiful and the Dammed Chilean Patagonia is an adventurer's paradise, a land of raging whitewater, dazzling glaciers, and pink-fleshed lunker trout. So how's it going to look with five new dams and a 1,500-mile power line? |
Outside
July 2004
Grayson Schaffer |
Find Your Flow We've zeroed in on the best blue-ribbon river trips in North America--from remote rapids to meandering flatwater--for getting wet, wild, and recharged. Also recommended gear. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2003
Ross Purnell |
Fly Fishing the Roaring Fork What you need to know about a fly fishing vacation in one of the American West's most fertile rivers. |
Real Travel Adventures
February 2007
Linda Ballou |
Slow Blowing Dream Coming home to Alaska's unrivaled beauty |
Outside
February 2002
William T. Vollmann |
Where the Ghost Bird Sings by the Poison Springs What's that smell? It's a teeming avian sanctuary� and a sump of troubled waters. It's a mess that we created� and a puzzle we can't solve. It's California's Salton Sea, a hypersaline lake that kills the very life it shelters... |
Science News
June 16, 2007 |
Timeline: From the June 12, 1937, issue What will the rivers do now?... Eros shaped like huge brick tumbling end over end in sky... Wallpaper patterns linked to atoms in study of design... |
Outside
April 2006 |
Adrenaline Nation Secret instructions on how to plot an escape from your hardwired grind to wide-open adventure in North America. |
BusinessWeek
May 25, 2011
Duane Stanford |
Trade Slows as the Mississippi River Floods Delivery times for shipments of grain and other valuable commodities are slowing as floods raise the level of the Mississippi. |
Adventure
September 2004
Geoffrey Norman |
The River Wilder A Thoreauvian river trip through Maine's North Woods. |
Outside
May 2003
Bruce Barcott |
Last Flight Out The Macal River Valley in Belize is home to three-toed tapirs, elusive jaguars, and a rare subspecies of scarlet macaw. But if Belize Electricity Ltd. gets its way, one of the richest riparian habitats north of the Amazon will disappear beneath the waters of a controversial dam. |
Outside
September 2005
Brad Wetzler |
Jackpot Nevada may be big and windswept, but don't dare call it empty. An adventure road trip through the Silver State turns up a secret-stash play land of back country splendor, high-end diversions, and a horizon that never stops beckoning. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Anne-Marie Corley |
Map: China Rewires Its Rivers A massive water diversion project aims to slake the north's thirst |
Outside
December 2001
Peter Heller |
Pourover Somewhere at the bottom of the deepest canyon on earth flows the Cotahuasi� -- a long, roiling ribbon of whitewater, a river so old and dangerous that you never master it, you just surrender to it. And pay respect to its ghosts... |
Popular Mechanics
November 2008
Michael Milstein |
6 Radical Solutions for U.S. Southwest's Peak Water Problem Increased usage and years of drought are diminishing the Colorado River's flow. States that rely on that water are forming strategies to deal with the problem. |
AskMen.com
Norman Brown |
Top 10: Crazy Construction Projects This installment of the Top 10 features all sorts of construction projects -- not just skyscrapers -- that are either in the process of being completed or for which the plans have been finalized. |
Geotimes
December 2003
Megan Sever |
La Nina controls Amazon floodplain A team of geologists linked the floodplain depositional layers to rapidly rising floods that occur during La Nina events in Bolivia. Rather than corresponding to annual flooding events in the rainforests, each large sediment influx corresponded to a La Nina event in the historic record. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Tony Huegel |
The Idaho Fishing Trip: Freedom of the Road 2007 South-central Idaho is the perfect place to fuel a Rocky Mountain tour with bait and tackle. |
Outside
June 2007 |
New American Road Trip Cars are faster, highways are better, and there's cool stuff just about everywhere. Stop sitting on those vacation days and get out there. Our five two-week loops will get you rolling. |
Outside
March 2007 |
Biking New Orleans, Louisiana Do not bike along the muddy Mississippi levee near New Orleans for clean air or beautiful vistas. Bike the 120 miles for the memories it invokes. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2004
Rich Taylor |
The Churning A 650-mile adventure on the Tennessee River tests the big new 4-strokes from Suzuki and Yamaha. |
Real Travel Adventures
December 2008
Neely & Neely |
Three Wonderful Weeks in China We chose to go to China just before the Olympics, when we thought prices would be still very good and it would not be so crowded yet every place would be clean and ready |
Salon.com
August 28, 2002
Suzy Hansen |
Not a drop to drink Forget oil -- an expert on the world's water supply talks about the vital substance we will hoard, ration and probably go to war for in the near future. |
Geotimes
November 2005
Megan Sever |
A Desert Oasis Now is the time to book a flight into Las Vegas, spend the night in a casino and scratch your gambling itch if you must, and then head out on a few day trips for some natural relief from all the glitz and glamour of the strip. |
