On a hilltop overlooking New Zealand's lush Whanganui River, Dan Steele is thinking about the future. Not just his future or ...

WHANGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — Whanganui Māori have a saying: Ko au te awa, ko te awa ko au: I am the river, and the river is me. WHANGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — The Whanganui River is surging ...

French authorities want to give legal rights to the River Seine to better defend the world-famous waterway in court and protect its fragile ecosystem, part of a global movement to grant legal ...

In 2017, New Zealand recognized the Whanganui River as human, as part of a settlement with its local iwi. The bill recognizing the mountain's personhood was affirmed unanimously by Parliament's ...

Its turn as a Hollywood star is just one of the many lives lived by the Whanganui, New Zealand’s third largest river and its most navigable, flowing 290km through the North Island. It’s seen heated ...

Mount Taranaki joins Te Urewera, a vast native forest on the North Island, and the Whanganui River in being recognised as people under New Zealand's laws. A mountain in New Zealand is now legally ...

WHANGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — The Whanganui River is surging into the ocean, fattened from days of winter rain and yellowed from the earth and clay that has collapsed into its sides. Logs and ...

In 2017, New Zealand recognized the Whanganui River as human, as part of a settlement with its local iwi. How much support did the law receive? The bill recognizing the mountain's personhood was ...

WHANGANUI, New Zealand >> The Whanganui River is surging into the ocean, fattened from days of winter rain and yellowed from the earth and clay that has collapsed into its sides. Logs and debris ...