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North Dakota's state Water Commission is moving forward with plans for a $15.3 million upgrade to the system of canals and pipes that drains Devils Lake floodwaters into the Sheyenne River.
A restaurant and two condominium developments near the Lake of the Ozarks allowed sewage to be dumped into the popular central Missouri lake, state Attorney General Chris Koster claims in two lawsuits filed Monday.
Just before midnight under the moon's gray light, the world tilted and tore off a Montana mountainside. Sliding rock buried 19 campers alive, their bodies never found, and 80 million tons of rock and trees tumbled into Madison River Canyon, leaving rubble piled more than 200 feet deep.
Turkmenistan has begun channeling water across hundreds of miles to create a lake in the heart of a barren desert, state media reported Thursday, in a Soviet-style engineering feat that some experts fear could unleash an environmental catastrophe.
New images suggest Mars had a sizable lake on its surface billions of years ago, further evidence that the planet had a watery past.
Police video shows officers in Texas swimming to a sinking SUV and saving a woman after her vehicle plunged into a small lake.
It’s easy to mock the predictable conventions of the slasher movie — as the “Scream” series did so brilliantly — or to go into high dudgeon over the violence in those films — as Siskel and Ebert did back in the 1980s. You may not like slasher movies — in the same way that you might not like musicals, Westerns or Meg Ryan films — but as with those other genres, there are good ones and there are bad ones.
A military skydiver who veered off course into a Florida lake was rescued after sinking about 15 feet underwater.
He’s ba-a-ck. Indeed, the man from MI6 — you know, the dapper gent with the penchant for fast cars, comely companions and fine-tuned martinis — is back with a vengeance. “Quantum of Solace,” the 22nd James Bond movie, hits U.S. movie screens on November 14, and fans of the franchise and armchair travelers alike have plenty to look forward to.
Illinois prison officials say a woman convicted in the drowning deaths of her three children has been released on parole after serving part of a 10-year sentence.
The world's oldest, deepest and biggest freshwater lake is growing warmer, dirtier and more crowded.
The Great Salt Lake is so briny that swimmers bob in the water like corks. It is teeming with tiny shrimp that were sold for years in the back of comic books as magical "sea monkeys." And, for reasons scientists cannot explain, it is heavily laden with toxic mercury.
Nearly two weeks after police began investigating spikes planted in the shallows of an urban Seattle lake, the mystery has been solved.
Nearly 50 metal spikes were mysteriously planted in the shallows of an urban lake popular with swimmers, alarming Seattle residents and leading to a police investigation.
After warning of a possible big wave, or seiche (SAYSH), Park District officials say water levels on Lake Michigan appeared to have swelled about a foot before receding.
China plans to turn a huge lake formed from the Sichuan earthquake disaster into a tourist destination, a state news agency reported Tuesday.
Ricki Lake is firing back at physicians groups that have singled her out for bringing attention to at-home childbirth.
Some in eastern Minnesota say there's a large, serpentlike creature living in the Mississippi River's Lake Pepin below Maiden Rock. If it exists, it could fatten your bank account.
A gust of wind blew a 2-year-old in a stroller into Lake Michigan, where the boy remained submerged for at least 15 minutes before being pulled out unconscious but alive.
Melting ice in southern Chile caused a glacial lake to swell and then empty suddenly, sending a "tsunami" rolling through a river, a scientist said Thursday. No one was injured in the remote region.
At least 10 bodies have been recovered after a boat capsized on Lake Tanganyika in eastern Congo, an official said Wednesday. The official said the overloaded boat was piloted by a drunken captain.
The red-and-white identification card was faded. But the name was legible and the picture of the man with the necktie and tidy mustache was clear.
A suspected thief disappeared into an alligator-infested lake as he fled police only to turn up dead the next day with gator teeth marks on his upper torso, authorities said Tuesday.
China has announced a multibillion-dollar plan to clean up a severely polluted lake where an algae bloom forced the suspension of water supplies to millions of people this summer.
Arctic sediments show that 20th century warming is unlike natural variationIn the paper, titled 'Recent Changes in a Remote Arctic Lake are Unique Within the Past 200,000 Years,' sediments retrieved by University at Buffalo geologists from a remote Arctic lake show that recent variations are unlike those that have been seen during previous warming episo …
I could've been a jerk about it and set up the camping trip for failure. I mean I knew we should get a camper of some sort but I also knew she wasn't going to have any of that until she got the tent camping experience.
Vorarlberg woman attacked by otters A Vorarlberg woman was hospitalised after a pair of otters launched a savage attack on her as she swam in a lake in America.
He's stranded. He's in the middle of a lake. And look! There's a.....Jet skiing is soooo much fun....until your engine stalls.
'Action man' Vladimir Putin dives to bottom of world's deepest lakeVladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister, dived to the bottom of the world's deepest lake aboard a mini-submarine, in a media stunt unusual even by the standards of the Russian "action man".
Police patrol called to check penguins' papersHolidaymakers by a lake in Bavaria called the police when they saw a man swimming and splashing around in the water with two penguins.
Protecting your children this summerNot only do drownings occur in swimming pools, but also in lakes, rivers and oceans. So remember to get educated on water safety in all areas by learning tips from keeping these tips in mind can ensure your summer fun.
Lake Ontario beaches ranked among worst in statenderscoring continuing pollution concerns in western New York waters, an annual nationwide study has ranked local swimming beaches among the most challenged in the state.
Synopsis: Part One tells my story of this typical American boy and his typical American family (hey! It's my story, so we're typical!) and their Sunday trip to the local lake for a typical American family picnic in days gone by. Some trips being wetter than others too.
Landslide tips house into lakeA violent landslide tipped a house in Nachterstedt in Saxony-Anhalt into Lake Tagebau early on Saturday morning. Three people are missing and feared dead.
Monster fish killed after terrorising swimmers at Swiss lake - and served for dinner Police divers have harpooned a huge fish that had been terrorising swimmers in a Swiss lake, sending a few to hospital with bite wounds.
At about 10pm, while awaiting the beautiful display of fireworks at a private residence on Lake Belle Taine in Nevis, MN, out of the Western sky, a orangy-red glowing object was floating through-traveling almost directly East. It passed right over our boat.
Swedish man and his dog fall into underground cesspitWhat started as a pleasant Midsummer's Eve stroll had an unpleasant and smelly end for a man and his dog in eastern Sweden.
USS Lake Erie received latest Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System by Lockheed Martin US's most advanced anti missile ship has been getting an upgrade in NJ rather than protecting Hawaii from NKorean missiles.
A gold mining company in Alaska apparently will be able to dump millions of tons of waste from its Kensington mine to fill in part of Lower Slate Lake in Alaska, despite the fact that it will kill all the lake's fish.
First hard evidence found of a lake on MarsA long, deep canyon and the remains of beaches are perhaps the clearest evidence yet of a standing lake on the surface of Mars -- one that apparently contained water when the planet was supposed to have already dried up, scientists said on Wednesday.
University of Colorado team finds definitive evidence for ancient lake on MarsA University of Colorado at Boulder research team has discovered the first definitive evidence of shorelines on Mars, an indication of a deep, ancient lake there and a finding with implications for the discovery of past life on the Red Planet.
Mom: Baby was tossed from Lewisville Lake bridgeThe mother of eight-month-old Daisja Weaver has told police that the baby's father threw the child into Lewisville Lake last week, a sigificant shift from her original account of assault and kidnapping.
If water is too clear, it will not contain fish; People who are too cautious will never gain wisdom." _Chinese Proverb
Causeway Driver Escapes After Crashing Into Lake -A driver crossing the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway on Monday morning made a dramatic escape after his truck plunged into the lake, Causeway officials said.
'Viking ship' discovered in Sweden's largest lakeMarine archaeologists in Sweden have discovered what they believe to be the wreck of a Viking ship at the bottom the country's largest lake.
Lake sinking near 1965 levelAnother below-average year on the Colorado River will soon shrink Lake Mead to a level not seen since President Lyndon Johnson unveiled his "Great Society" and the Beatles bared their "Rubber Soul."
Man is fought off by 81-year-old woman, runs off and drowns in Mirror LakeST. PETERSBURG, Fla. --- The man wanted a dollar. When the 81-year-old woman — on her way to a downtown bank Friday — said no, he put her in a headlock and tried to take her down. But she fought back.
More People Torching Their Cars for CashYears of no-money-down car loans followed by sinking home values and rising unemployment has made many people desperate over car payments they can no longer afford.
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