American Rivers today announced its annual list of Most Endangered Rivers, topped by America’s River, the Potomac, neighboring the U.S. legislature that’s rolling back measures to protect U.S. waterways. The organization, who last year celebrated the high-profile removal of dams on Washington State’s Elwha River and White Salmon River, releases a list of its top [...]
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At some point last fall the water got cold enough that Fang wasn’t super psyched to spend huge amounts of time in it. He’d wade in for a drink, or to chase frogs or fish, but he definitely got to a point where swimming was ‘out’. It surprised me that his reaction was to try [...]
Open-water swimmers, a.k.a. tri geeks, aren’t known for their levity or, despite the skimpiness of their swimwear, boldness in fashion or design. Nevertheless, it seems that Finis has blown a golden opportunity to have some fun with its new and very cool Hydro Tracker GPS: Because this distance meter is designed to be worn on [...]
The University of Vermont recently became the latest of a score of colleges that have banned the sale of bottled water on campus. The school’s almost $500,000 contract with Coca-Cola expires in June and the ban will take effect January 1, 2012; it also dictates that one-third of the drinks sold in vending machines must [...]
The Devil’s Pool on the Zambia side of Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River has both the illusion of danger and the cold-reality-of-imminent-death danger if something goes wrong. Perched on the edge of the 360-foot torrent, the pool is a deep depression in the rock just upriver of the lip. In high-water months, it’s suicide, [...]
A recent flareup in the water war between the federal government and the ski industry has taken several twists. The industry filed suit against the feds on Monday, as it had threatened, and a former Forest Service official charged the snow business with taking advantage of a lax regulatory environment under the Bush administration to [...]
The ocean is the setting for many of mankind’s original adventures. Massive, mercurial, dangerous, and foreign to our sinking, uninsulated bodies, the seas are not so different from the moon or Mars. Unforgiving. Inhospitable. And still, despite advances in technology and knowledge, filled with wonder and mystery. Today we bring you a look at this [...]
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