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The Thames: One of the World’s Most Invaded Rivers

You might call us invasive reporters in England, transplants from America looking for a few good stories in the UK. While we’re minding our p’s and q’s, London is dealing with an entirely different breed of North American invaders, and they’re quickly filling up the city’s largest river. We’re talking invasive planets, fish, insects, birds,…

Third day into the expedition, the team took their quadcopter for an unintentional bumpy ride-and caught it all on tap.

All water is connected — the fresh to the salty and the salty to the fresh — and this weekend it’s time to celebrate steps that have been taken to keep it all healthy as we hit the 40th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act. How to celebrate? If you’re in the DC area come…

Paddling 600 miles through Alaska from Northway to the village of Tanana, explorer Jon Waterhouse and his team have been on a mission to study the river and learn from its native inhabitants.

Image of Three Gorges Dam, May 2006, courtesy NASA Earth Observatory This post is part of a special National Geographic news series on global water issues. Annual flooding behind the world’s largest hydro-electric dam, the Three Gorges Dam in China, will be unlike that of the Amazon River or anything else found in nature. As…