Editor’s note: This story was updated to clarify the Colorado Constitution’s language around stream use. Accessing rivers and streams is a “fundamental component of our culture and identity,” says an ...

Rivers and streams ‘breathe’ nearly two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year, the second-largest carbon flux from an ecosystem after soil respiration 1, 2. Riverine CO 2 has ...

Charlotte Milne receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Public Scholars Initiative at UBC. The research mentioned in this article received funding ...