RISING SON, Ind. (WKRC) - The harsh winter weather was not only affecting roadways but also creating significant challenges for crews operating barges and towboats on the Ohio River. The ...

Dr. Robert Knight, renowned springs scientist and founder of the Florida Springs Institute, cites excessive groundwater pumping and nitrogen pollution as the two biggest stresses to Florida springs.

(1950s) Know your Waterways Robert Aikman’ Susan Woolfit in her book Idle Women describes the work that women took on to run the canal boats and barges ... bitter cold of winter, when the ...

This story appears in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Grand Canal barges have no fancy names, no mermaids planted on the bow, no corny sayings painted on the stern. Instead ...