Can you explain the concept of a river as a living being? At the heart of the book is the idea that rivers have lives, deaths –– and even rights. It asks readers to imagine rivers in these terms, and ...

Biqiong Wu is at the Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Yangtze and Hydroelectric Science, China Yangtze Power Company, Yichang, China. China’s Yangtze River is the longest in Eurasia and the ...

River-realm or river-sphere, or, in a technical sense, river ecology, has been a recurring topic in our many conversations.