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We all sit and scroll news feeds and every now and then an incredibly cool link shows up! I found Sam Learner’s River Runner by clicking on a Treehugger article and can’t get enough of it, so wanted to share.

Amtrak’s Kansas City to St Louis ‘River Runner’ to resume twice daily service Copyright Amtrak and last updated 2021-06-02 11:48:19-04 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Riders taking Amtrak’s River Runner service from Kansas City to St. Louis will soon have more options. In March 2020, the slowdown in travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic forced Amtrak and the Missouri Department of Transportation to scale back the service to once per day. Starting July 19, the service will return to it...

Amtrak eliminated one of the two daily round trips on the cross-state route in March 2020.

The local chapter of Team River Runner provides kayaks free of charge to veterans and their families.

[Source Photo: Strekoza2/iStock] advertisement advertisement If fertilizer runs off a farm in southwestern Montana, it could end up traveling more than 3,400 miles through streams and rivers in North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Missouri, and then down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, where it might end up contributing to a giant algae-filled dead zone. Plastic trash that lands in a stream in West Virginia might make a similarly long journey—around 3,000 miles—to the same pla...

Click on any spot or enter an address, and it will show where the water is likely to flow. Good for both learning how pollution and plastic spreads, but also for an aerial visual ride of the country’s waterways.

Amtrak Restoring Service While Missouri Moves to Limit It As Amtrak moves to restore both state supported regional service and long distance trains to pre-pandemic schedules, the Missouri legislature doesnt seem inclined to pay for twice a day service on the Missouri River Runner which stops in Sedalia and Warrensburg on its route between Kansas City and St. Louis. Over the course of the next three weeks Amtrak is restoring most of its long distance trains to daily service. This week the Texas ...

When a Raindrop Falls in the US, Where Does It End Up?   May 24, 2021 Using data from the United States Geological Survey, River Runner visualizes the path taken by a raindrop from its landing spot to its eventual endpoint. Just click on any spot in the US and it maps out the path the drop would take, complete with a satellite fly-through of the route. I spent many happy minutes playing with this, although the endpoint of “Canada” for a raindrop that lands in my Vermont yard was somewhat u...

  SASKATOON -- Colin Witow, founder of Sleepy Dragon Games, is testing a mobile game called River Runner. “Up until last December, I had a game for every night of the week that I would work on, which proved to be a little too much,” Witow says. “So at the start of the year, I was just like ‘ok I’m just going to focus on these top three’ and River Runner is the forerunner right now.” The game sets up a bit like an obstacle course, where a user is travelling down a river in a ...