Tag: River

River City Ransom for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is the best brawler video game ever created. Goofy, charming, and holding up after thirty-five years, it's a genre trailblazer. Let me explain. Barfing While in Fight River City Ransom (RCR) places Alex and friend Ryan on a...

A spectrum of pink light dances its way through the skyline of downtown Bangkok as the buildings begin to illuminate in the early hours of the morning. The rising sun stirs the peace and tranquility of the river that runs through the heart of the city. The river is the slither of calm in the darknes...

Delhi, the capital city of India, is currently grappling with a severe flood caused by the Yamuna River’s overflowing waters. This flood differs from the previous ones because it is not just the impoverished communities along the Yamuna affected; even posh colonies are stranded. The ...

It’s been one year since my boyfriend, Slate Rose, left me for an urban planner with a husky voice who hosts a radio segment on the topography and regional culture of Los Angeles. Her name is Virginia, but Slate calls her Virgil, because of her poetic musings on the inception of the Elysian Va...

In the previous article, we took a stroll around the Île de la Cité and visited the Sainte Chapelle and Notre Dame. Next, we will cross another bridge towards the south of the island and head over to the Latin Quarter. If you are expecting exotic fruit stalls, salsa, and bachata dancing...

I will never forget the horror of hearing the sound of a huge splash while working during a summer heatwave in Amsterdam. Our offices’ upstairs neighbour — a local celebrity and highly eclectic sort — had decided to cool off in the murky brown waters of one of the city’s f...

“This is not a time to allow Pride celebrations to go away,” said noted LGBTQ-rights activist Cleve Jones in The Press Democrat. “In our opinion, this is a time to make sure these things happen.” He teamed with Brian Hughes of Russian River Alliance and Juanita More t...

The Hulahula River runs through Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, offering an unparalleled rafting experience with white water rapids and stunning scenery. The river travels from the Romanzoff Mountains through the foothills of the Brooks Range and out onto the coastal plain. It’...

A Brahminy-kite is soaring over the waters, staring straight down. Down below, a tall black pole juts out of the water, and on its top perches a cormorant, gazing horizontally toward far hills on my right. On my balcony on a steep slope, I’m at eye level with the kite. In the distance, where w...

As a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Lacey, Washington, I answer all kinds of wildlife-related questions. Every spring and summer, I receive numerous phone calls and emails from throughout the Puget Sound area requesting that I come get a sea otter out from under a house, off a ...

Anglers on the Kalama River in Cowlitz County have extra opportunity to catch summer steelhead below the Kalama Falls Hatchery in 2022, as a popular fish “recycling” program returns for the first time in seven years. For years, fishery managers with the Washington Department of Fish a...

Nestled in Kananaskis in Southern Alberta lies the Highwood Valley. At the heart of the region is the Highwood River, which winds through the mountain valley in its upper stretches, through to the foothills, and into the towns of Longview and High River, before joining the Bow River. While known for...

Extraordinary Adaptations African hippos, or hippopotamus amphibious, are extraordinary creatures that have evolved with impressive semi-aquatic adaptations. Their large bodies are designed for life in the water, with eyes, ears, and nostrils located on the top of their heads. This allows them...

I was disappointed. My father was an intellectual, a law professor about to become the president of the university. He was also a fascist, a supporter of the Franco dictatorship. Perhaps I was expecting a lecture about the moral superiority of Spain as “unity of destiny in the universal”...

There’s one particular spot in yamabushi training you have to ford a river to get to. Over the past decade or so, that river has only been crossable once or twice. It got to the point that only yamabushi who had done the training years back had ever been there. Every year we eagerly wait until...

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The mighty Colorado River begins its journey from a trickle of water high in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Before reaching its final destination, the Sea of Cortez in northwestern Mexico, it travels a distance of more than 1,400 miles. During its course, the river cuts through nearly 2 billion ye...