A Minnesota Pollution Control Agency water quality report on the lower Littlefork River watershed suggests logging practices from 80 years ago could be the cause of the river’s polluted water today.

More than 17 years ago, landslides and flooding and huge demonstrations forced state regulators to shut down Charles Hurwitz’s logging operation in Elk River. After a five-year moratorium, his Maxxam ...

A Sonoma County judge has halted logging operations tied to a disputed timber harvest plan in the Gualala River watershed until a court challenge against the project can be resolved. Superior Court ...

A new state study links pollution on the lower Little Fork River near International Falls to logging practices 80 years ago. Jesse Anderson, research scientist with the Minnesota Pollution Control ...

North Korean loggers paddle a raft made of logs down the Yalu River. Photo: Courtesy of Vlogger Liu North Korean loggers paddle a raft made of logs down the Yalu River. Photo: Courtesy of Vlogger Liu ...

A legal battle over plans to log in the lower Gualala River flood plain is heading into a fifth year, despite a recent victory in state appeals court by Gualala Redwood Timber and Cal Fire which first ...

To understand the perilous, often illegal logging industry in the Congo Basin, we needed to get out on the water ourselves. By Dionne Searcey Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and ...

Researchers stand on the abandoned floodplain on the left, with the San Lorenzo River on the right. The level area in the center of the photo may be a new floodplain being formed. When the San Lorenzo ...

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, in a rare step earlier this month, wrote British Columbia Premier John Horgan with “grave concern,” admonishing his government for not consulting with the city on a B.C.

“The June rise used to be always luck for me; because as soon as that rise begins, here comes cord-wood floating down, and pieces of log rafts – sometimes a dozen logs together; so all you have to do ...

Alan Doyle of the band Great Big Sea describes the folk song "The River Driver" — a tune about men who worked in the logging industry in Newfoundland. Take a listen to the new album by the Canadian ...

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, in a rare step earlier this month, wrote British Columbia Premier John Horgan with “grave concern,” admonishing his government for not consulting with the city on a B.C.