14-03-19 The frustrated attempts of a UCLA graduate student to quantify the amount of water draining from Greenland's melting ice sheet led him to devise a new way to measure river flows from outer space, he and his professor report in a new study. The new a...

14-02-14 One day, a colt（小马，生手） carried a bag of wheat to the mill. As he was running with the bag on his back, he came to a small river. Water went gurgling（作汩汩声） on. The colt could not decide whether he could cross it. Looking around, he saw a...

14-02-10 Several water gauges along the River Thames have measured record levels as flood waters continue to rise. 泰晤士河洪水水位持续上涨，几处水文测量站的数据均已突破历史记录。 Royal Navy engineers from HMS Sultan, Gosport, were called in to build sandbag...

14-01-23 Scientists in Brazil have discovered the first new river dolphin species since the end of World War One. 巴西科学家发现一种新的淡水豚，这是一战结束以来首次发现的新豚种。 The Araguaia river dolphin is the first new species described since 1918 Named...

14-01-08 Like salmon（大马哈鱼） in reverse, long-snouted Bandringa sharks migrated downstream from freshwater swamps（沼泽，湿地） to a tropical coastline to spawn 310 million years ago, leaving behind fossil evidence of one of the earliest known shark nurs...

13-10-24 A big fish lives in a small pond. He is bigger than any other fish. But he isn't happy. He doesn't like the small pond. He wants to live in a big river. One day, he swims into a big river. The fish in the river are much bigger than him. He has no fr...

13-07-27 A new report projects that by the middle of this century there will be an average 56 percent drop in the amount of water stored in peak snowpack in the McKenzie River watershed（流域，分水岭） of the Oregon Cascade Range -- and that similar impacts...

13-06-08 Hungarians have been warned to prepare for their country's worst floods ever as the Danube is set to reach record levels this weekend. 匈牙利人正在为该国历史上最严重的洪灾做准备，本周末多瑙河将达到最高水位。 We are facing the worst floods of all tim...

13-05-23 Large-river specialist fishes -- from giant species like paddlefish（白鲟） and blue catfish, to tiny crystal darters and silver chub -- are in danger, but researchers say there is greater hope to save them if major tributaries identified in a Unive...

13-05-14 A little stream flowed down from a high mountain far, far away through many villages and forests, until it reached a desert. The stream then thought, I've been through countless obstacles. I should have no problem crossing this desert! But when she...