River news
Stay updated with the latest global news on community river action. Discover how community led and community based action and innovation can best tackle environmental and climate change challenges and support sustainable practices.
2026
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Young inventor plans to stop 90% of floating sea plastic by 2040, positive.news (May 07, 2026) - How to build cities for wildlife, not just people – new research, theconversation.com (May 06, 2026)
- Five Years Into a Fishing Ban, the Yangtze River Is Teeming With Life, insideclimatenews.org (Feb 12, 2026)
- World Enters “Era of Global Water Bankruptcy” UN Scientists Formally Define New Post-Crisis Reality for Billions, unu.edu (Jan 20, 2026)
2025
[edit | edit source]- South Sudanese community fights to save land from relentless flooding worsened by climate change, apnews.com (Dec 14, 2025)
- The Big Bet to Fix the Rio Grande Sewage Problem, insideclimatenews.org (Dec 07, 2025)
- I am the first Indigenous journalist to exclusively interview António Guterres. How many others will listen?, theguardian.com (Oct 28, 2025) — A young journalist reflects on the UN leader’s responses, and hopes his messages – about human violence on an increasingly hostile planet – resonated before Cop30
- One year after a historic dam removal, teens inspire river restoration worldwide: ‘It turns out you can win’, theguardian.com (Oct 25, 2025) — The Klamath River began rebounding almost immediately. Now, Indigenous youth are leading the next chapter of the recovery, inspiring tribes from Brazil to China
- Harvesting Hope: The Urban Farms Helping Save a City’s Aging Sewer System, reasonstobecheerful.world (Oct 17, 2025) — City-supported farms are making St. Louis more absorbent, and have kept nearly 100 million gallons of wastewater out of the Mississippi River
- The Ganges River is drying faster than ever – here’s what it means for the region and the world, theconversation.com (Sep 24, 2025)
- The Landmark Settlement That Could Get Plastic Pellet Pollution Out of America’s Rivers, reasonstobecheerful.world (Sep 22, 2025)
- Hundreds plunge in Chicago River for first official swim in nearly 100 years, theguardian.com (Sep 21, 2025)
- Indigenous-led solar canoe initiative expanding across the Amazon, Aimee Gabay, news.mongabay.com (Sep 01, 2025)
- ‘Plastic Cup’ Competitions Are Cleaning Up Rivers in Hungary, reasonstobecheerful.world (Aug 25, 2025) — Afloat on DIY boats, teams of volunteers have removed over 450 tons of plastic waste from the Danube and its tributaries
- Urban swimming: six European cities that revived river bathing, positive.news (Jul 17, 2025)
- It was filthy and it stank terribly’: how Europe’s dirtiest river was brought back to life, theguardian.com (Jul 10, 2025)
- Paris reopens Seine River to public swimming after century-long ban, theguardian.com (Jul 06, 2025)
- ‘We Are the People of the River’, reasonstobecheerful.world (May 23, 2025) — The Fort Yuma Quechan Tribe is working to heal the ailing Colorado River ecosystem by planting one native seed at a time
- How memories of clean water, frogs and fresh air could help save Rio’s favelas from future climate disaster, theguardian.com (May 14, 2025)
- From sewage and scum to swimming in ‘blue gold’: how Switzerland transformed its rivers, theguardian.com (Mar 17, 2025)
- All the birds returned’: How a Chinese project led the way in water and soil conservation, theguardian.com (Mar 14, 2025)
2024
[edit | edit source]- A River in Washington State Now Has Enforceable Legal Rights, insideclimatenews.org (Dec 05, 2024)
- There is a rage for urban swimming in Europe right now - in the Seine for the French Olympics, but in Copenhagen, Glasgow and London too, Daily Alternative (Jul 17, 2024)
- "Nepal convenes the world system. There is no omniscient narrator, no possible third person." A report on the latest World Social Forum, Daily Alternative (Jul 04, 2024)
- A global plastic treaty will only work if it caps production, modelling shows, theconversation.com (May 03, 2024)
- Plastic-choked rivers in Ecuador are being cleared with conveyor belts, BBC Future (Apr 22, 2024)
- Why Europe is dismantling its dams, BBC Future (Mar 05, 2024)
- Reverse in endangered fish’s slide to extinction helped by Indigenous effort in Bangladesh, news.mongabay.com (Jan 19, 2024)
- ‘It gets your stomach churning’: the team wading through nappies to clean up Bali’s waterways, theguardian.com (Jan 17, 2024)
Community river action
[edit | edit source]The aim of this section (which can be expanded to its own page once there is enough information shared here) is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups activism to restore and enhance the health of our rivers.
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Organisations working with communities
- Drinkable Rivers, added 11:25, 24 September 2025 (UTC)
Community Action Projects
- River clean ups
- River Keepers, information from bioregion.org.uk (South Devon / Plymouth)
- Citizen Science
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