Detroit — A group of scientists cheered when Anna Hill hoisted her catch from the water along Belle Isle's Riverbank Drive. So far that frigid Friday morning, the team had been skunked by the dozens ...

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JERSEY CITY, N.J. — If you haven’t taken your children to Liberty Science Center, now is the time to plan a trip. The acclaimed science and learning center has recently expanded its long-standing ...

When it comes to river health and the creatures who live in and along it, the Ohio’s muddy surface only tells part of the story. With eight member states, the Ohio River Valley Sanitation Commission ...

The federal government has been petitioned under the Endangered Species Act to save two tiny and little-known snails that were once common near the Tri-Cities. Their populations have been lost from ...

Flowing nearly 650 miles through Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, the Tennessee River is one of the most important waterways in the South. From its headwaters in the Appalachian ...

It’s the largest freshwater turtle in North America and one that looks downright prehistoric. But this “dinosaur” of a turtle, as it’s often called, which only lives in the Suwannee River basin of ...