In 1928, newlyweds Glen and Bessie Hyde tried to set a speed record through an undammed Colorado River in a homemade wooden scow. Rescuers found their boat upright and fully loaded. They were never seen again.
They Rowed into the Grand Canyon to Break a World Record—and Vanished Without a Trace
In 1928, newlyweds Glen and Bessie Hyde tried to set a speed record through an undammed Colorado River in a homemade wooden scow. Rescuers found their boat upright and fully loaded. They were never seen again.
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November 3, 2026 at 8:30 PM
In 1928, newlyweds Glen and Bessie Hyde tried to set a speed record through an undammed Colorado River in a homemade wooden scow. Rescuers found their boat upright and fully loaded. They were never seen again.
In 1928, newlyweds Glen and Bessie Hyde tried to set a speed record through an undammed Colorado River in a homemade wooden scow. Rescuers found their boat upright and fully loaded. They were never seen again.
They Rowed into the Grand Canyon to Break a World Record—and Vanished Without a Trace
In 1928, newlyweds Glen and Bessie Hyde tried to set a speed record through an undammed Colorado River in a homemade wooden scow. Rescuers found their boat upright and fully loaded. They were never seen again.
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November 1, 2026 at 4:30 PM
In 1928, newlyweds Glen and Bessie Hyde tried to set a speed record through an undammed Colorado River in a homemade wooden scow. Rescuers found their boat upright and fully loaded. They were never seen again.
In 1928, newlyweds Glen and Bessie Hyde tried to set a speed record through an undammed Colorado River in a homemade wooden scow. Rescuers found their boat upright and fully loaded. They were never seen again.
They Rowed into the Grand Canyon to Break a World Record—and Vanished Without a Trace
In 1928, newlyweds Glen and Bessie Hyde tried to set a speed record through an undammed Colorado River in a homemade wooden scow. Rescuers found their boat upright and fully loaded. They were never seen again.
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October 30, 2026 at 1:30 PM
In 1928, newlyweds Glen and Bessie Hyde tried to set a speed record through an undammed Colorado River in a homemade wooden scow. Rescuers found their boat upright and fully loaded. They were never seen again.
Isn’t that great? They were also instrumental in getting the Klamath undammed, which is bringing salmon back to the upper river spawning grounds. They continue habitat restoration along the banks as well. Huzzah!
October 17, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Isn’t that great? They were also instrumental in getting the Klamath undammed, which is bringing salmon back to the upper river spawning grounds. They continue habitat restoration along the banks as well. Huzzah!
Tribe Just a Signature Away from Recovering 1,100 Ancestral Acres Along Undammed Elwha River www.goodnewsnetwork.org/tribe-just-a...
Tribe Just a Signature Away from Recovering 1,100 Ancestral Acres Along Undammed Elwha River
114 years after it was flooded, the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe is just a signature away from having 1,100 acres of land returned to them.
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October 17, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Tribe Just a Signature Away from Recovering 1,100 Ancestral Acres Along Undammed Elwha River www.goodnewsnetwork.org/tribe-just-a...
Tribe Just a Signature Away from Recovering 1,100 Ancestral Acres Along Undammed Elwha River: 20 years after a Washington state dam was slated for demolition, 1,100 acres of ecosystem along the Lower… @goodnewsnetwork.org #IndigenousRights #LandBack #EnvironmentalJustice #ElwhaRiver #AncestralLands
Tribe Just a Signature Away from Recovering 1,100 Ancestral Acres Along Undammed Elwha River
20 years after a Washington state dam was slated for demolition, 1,100 acres of ecosystem along the Lower Elwha River is recovering, having lain muddy and dormant under the dam’s engorged reservoir for more than a century. And now, 171 years after the land left their hands, and 114 years after it was flooded, the […]
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October 16, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Tribe Just a Signature Away from Recovering 1,100 Ancestral Acres Along Undammed Elwha River: 20 years after a Washington state dam was slated for demolition, 1,100 acres of ecosystem along the Lower… @goodnewsnetwork.org #IndigenousRights #LandBack #EnvironmentalJustice #ElwhaRiver #AncestralLands
The Ipswich is a nice river, especially in its upper, undammed sections. We have a lot of nice little rivers here. I live literally across the street from one, the Shawsheen. It's industrialized in my neighborhood, but go upstream less than a mile and its nice.
October 8, 2026 at 2:34 PM
The Ipswich is a nice river, especially in its upper, undammed sections. We have a lot of nice little rivers here. I live literally across the street from one, the Shawsheen. It's industrialized in my neighborhood, but go upstream less than a mile and its nice.
Good morning, Bluesky. This is the Black River in Arizona, one of the few wild undammed rivers in the state. A beautiful place to forget about all the turmoil in the world. #BlackRiver #Arizona #Rivers #landscapes #photography
October 4, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Good morning, Bluesky. This is the Black River in Arizona, one of the few wild undammed rivers in the state. A beautiful place to forget about all the turmoil in the world. #BlackRiver #Arizona #Rivers #landscapes #photography
The #Vjosa at Tepelena, #Albania: one of Europe's last wild rivers, flowing some 270 km undammed from Greece to the Adriatic. Since 2023, Europe's first Wild River National Park. #Austria helps protect it, funding research with Austrian universities and water monitoring to EU standards.
October 3, 2026 at 5:49 AM
A 1,600-Year-Old Roman Mosaic Just Turned Up in a Buried Roman Town Beside Europe’s Only Undammed Major River: www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/09/a...
A 1,600-Year-Old Roman Mosaic Just Turned Up in a Buried Roman Town Beside Europe's Only Undammed Major River
In the small village of Qesarat, in southern Albania's Tepelenë district, an Italian-Albanian excavation team has just finished a summer season that turned up something unusual: six decorated floors f...
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September 28, 2026 at 12:03 PM
A 1,600-Year-Old Roman Mosaic Just Turned Up in a Buried Roman Town Beside Europe’s Only Undammed Major River: www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/09/a...
The damns were a barrier to their success
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‘Undammed’ makes a strong case for dam removal
Author Tara Lohan chronicles a five-plus-year exploration of what happens when dams are removed and rivers return to their natural states.
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September 25, 2026 at 12:19 PM
The damns were a barrier to their success
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Since the Klamath River was officially undammed in August 2024, 20,000 salmon have returned to its waters.
But the challenges these fish face are many and nuanced – water rights and drought being the two biggest.
Read the full article to learn more: buff.ly/FFqaTVf
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But the challenges these fish face are many and nuanced – water rights and drought being the two biggest.
Read the full article to learn more: buff.ly/FFqaTVf
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September 24, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Since the Klamath River was officially undammed in August 2024, 20,000 salmon have returned to its waters.
But the challenges these fish face are many and nuanced – water rights and drought being the two biggest.
Read the full article to learn more: buff.ly/FFqaTVf
@insideclimatenews.org
But the challenges these fish face are many and nuanced – water rights and drought being the two biggest.
Read the full article to learn more: buff.ly/FFqaTVf
@insideclimatenews.org
[Commentary] A recent river disaster on the Tibetan Plateau serves as a severe warning against proposed hydropower projects on the Karnali, Nepal's last undammed river.
Gary Wockner and Megh Ale argue that keeping the Karnali free-flowing is vital for safety, biodiversity, and cultural heritage.
Gary Wockner and Megh Ale argue that keeping the Karnali free-flowing is vital for safety, biodiversity, and cultural heritage.
For wild rivers like the Karnali, Nepal’s disaster is a warning and an answer (commentary)
Recently, a glacial collapse on the Tibetan Plateau sent a wall of water and debris roaring across the Nepal-China border. As of this publication, more than 1,000 people are confirmed dead and over…
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September 23, 2026 at 11:53 AM
[Commentary] A recent river disaster on the Tibetan Plateau serves as a severe warning against proposed hydropower projects on the Karnali, Nepal's last undammed river.
Gary Wockner and Megh Ale argue that keeping the Karnali free-flowing is vital for safety, biodiversity, and cultural heritage.
Gary Wockner and Megh Ale argue that keeping the Karnali free-flowing is vital for safety, biodiversity, and cultural heritage.
Building my house on the beach.
Building my house on the banks of an undammed river.
Building my house on arctic permafrost.
Building my house on a glacier.
Building my house on the banks of an undammed river.
Building my house on arctic permafrost.
Building my house on a glacier.
In Dana Point, California, beachfront homeowners are building a costly rock wall to hold back the ocean, escalating a battle over private property and what to do about years-long beach erosion amid storm damage and higher tides. https://wapo.st/4xIc3Fe
September 22, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Building my house on the beach.
Building my house on the banks of an undammed river.
Building my house on arctic permafrost.
Building my house on a glacier.
Building my house on the banks of an undammed river.
Building my house on arctic permafrost.
Building my house on a glacier.
Plenary talk of Gabriel Singer (University of Innsbruck) at #DGL2026 about "Catalyzing engaged river science at large scales".
By example of the undammed Greek/Albanian Vjosa, he demonstrates how geological diversity and dispersal processes promote high beta-biodiversity.
By example of the undammed Greek/Albanian Vjosa, he demonstrates how geological diversity and dispersal processes promote high beta-biodiversity.
September 17, 2026 at 7:22 AM
Plenary talk of Gabriel Singer (University of Innsbruck) at #DGL2026 about "Catalyzing engaged river science at large scales".
By example of the undammed Greek/Albanian Vjosa, he demonstrates how geological diversity and dispersal processes promote high beta-biodiversity.
By example of the undammed Greek/Albanian Vjosa, he demonstrates how geological diversity and dispersal processes promote high beta-biodiversity.
RS with your home river.
The scenic Greenbrier. One of* the longest undammed rivers in the Eastern US, this beauty flows from its headwaters in the Allegheny mountains to the New River at Hinton, WV. Just upstream from the mouth is Talcott, WV, where John Henry fatefully raced the steam drill.
The scenic Greenbrier. One of* the longest undammed rivers in the Eastern US, this beauty flows from its headwaters in the Allegheny mountains to the New River at Hinton, WV. Just upstream from the mouth is Talcott, WV, where John Henry fatefully raced the steam drill.
September 10, 2026 at 3:47 PM
RS with your home river.
The scenic Greenbrier. One of* the longest undammed rivers in the Eastern US, this beauty flows from its headwaters in the Allegheny mountains to the New River at Hinton, WV. Just upstream from the mouth is Talcott, WV, where John Henry fatefully raced the steam drill.
The scenic Greenbrier. One of* the longest undammed rivers in the Eastern US, this beauty flows from its headwaters in the Allegheny mountains to the New River at Hinton, WV. Just upstream from the mouth is Talcott, WV, where John Henry fatefully raced the steam drill.
Why America is removing thousands of dams and letting rivers flow freely: Excerpt
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->resilience | More on "Removing dams restoring rivers" at BigEarthData.ai | #dam #water #river
Why America is removing thousands of dams and letting rivers flow freely: Excerpt
Originally published on December 5, 2025. This excerpt is adapted from Tara Lohan’s Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life (2025) and published here with permission from Island Press. It was produced for the web by Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute. With more than 550,000 dams in the United States, free-flowing rivers are an endangered species. We’ve dammed, diked, and diverted almost every major river in the country, straightening curves, pinching off floodplains, and blocking passage for fish and other aquatic animals. But this has come at a great cost. Freshwater biodiversity—all the organisms that hail from our rivers, streams, lakes, and wetlands—is among the most threatened on the planet. Dams have played a big role in that demise, pushing fish, mussels, and other animals to the brink, and some over it. In North America, nearly 40 percent of fish are imperiled, and 61 species have blinked out since 1900. A growing dam removal movement has led to some 2,200 dams being blasted and backhoed from U.S. rivers—most of them in the past 25 years. It’s an extraordinary turn of events for a dam-loving country. Europeans began erecting river barriers soon after...
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September 11, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Yellowstone River. Longest undammed river in contiguous United States
September 10, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Yellowstone River. Longest undammed river in contiguous United States
New book review, on a clear eyed reckoning with mankind’s hubris by @taralohan.bsky.social
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Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life
Book Review: Undammed by Tara Lohan
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August 25, 2026 at 10:53 PM
New book review, on a clear eyed reckoning with mankind’s hubris by @taralohan.bsky.social
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The Altamaha itself is a vast, wild treasure, little known to the general public. I believe it is the longest undammed river in Georgia, perhaps in the Southeast.
August 24, 2026 at 3:47 AM
The Altamaha itself is a vast, wild treasure, little known to the general public. I believe it is the longest undammed river in Georgia, perhaps in the Southeast.