MEENA VENKATARAMAN is a wildlife biologist and the founder of Carnivore Conservation and Research, with a focus on Asiatic Lions. She talks to Renuka Bisht about how the lion census numbers don’t tell ...

Over two decades after a band bus dumped hundreds of pounds of human waste into the river, the Chicago River Swim raised $150,000 for ALS research and swim education programs. reading time 2 minutes ...

Photos from the Chicago River Swim on Sept. 21, 2025, which raised $100,000 for research into ALS and celebrated the river’s recovery from its polluted past. Swimmers compete in 1st official Chicago ...

For the first time in nearly a century, swimmers took to the open water of the Chicago River on Sunday. Participants in the Chicago River Swim made their way along a one- or two-mile route downtown.

Hundreds of residents gathered Sunday for an historic event, as the first Chicago River swim in nearly a century hit the water. The swim, dedicated to raising money for Northwestern University’s ...

It’s just after 8am at Low Rock Beach in Malahide, north Co Dublin, and a group of people are setting up plastic chairs. There are bags filled with towels, swimming hats and wetsuit booties on the ...

You are in Brooklyn, and it’s 1977. All you want to do is have a good time. Times might have changed since then, but “Saturday Night Fever: The Musical” at Toby’s Dinner Theatre brings back a taste of ...

Waves wash ashore along the Galveston Seawall, where pavement meets sand and surf, on Dec. 26, 2023, in Galveston, Texas. (Gage Goulding, Copyright 2025 by KPRC ...

A couple from the United Kingdom had to cut their vacation in Venice short after being caught swimming in the Grand Canal. The 35-year-old British man and his 25-year-old Romanian girlfriend were ...

A man has died in Dublin after getting into difficulty while swimming on Sunday afternoon in Dún Laoghaire. The Coast Guard responded to an emergency call at about 12.30pm and the man was rescued from ...

Three people have died in drowning incidents at Bean Point Beach on Anna Maria Island in the last month. The city is considering a permanent ban on swimming in the dangerous area. Bean Point is ...

Staff at Angel Island State Park were on one of their morning boat runs last week when they came across an unusual sight. As a seagull soared over the deep water, they noticed the creature’s head ...