More than 70 years ago, a 14-year-old Jim Fearson took an after-school job at a little gas station on the Virginia side of Chain Bridge. Each spring, the river below would fill with shad on their ...

The scientific name of the American shad, Alosa sapidissima, provides a hint as to why it is many people’s favorite fish, and why the season when they swim upriver to their breeding grounds is so ...

Just 3 per cent of rivers in the UK flow unobstructed today, according to a European Union project. Centuries of industrialisation have reshaped these waterways and artificial structures such as weirs ...