Tree branches bending down to the water hide the turn of the river on both sides, and what you see is a lake with wooded hills, a few little houses on the far shore, a pier with a tiny man fishing.

NEWYORKER: Getting Closer

When you turn into the Sekonyer River, closer towards Camp Leakey, the river becomes narrow and you will get a great view of the male monkey's enormous snout - which is so big they have to move them out of the way to eat.

BBC: Drifting down the Sekonyer

"We all admire the beaver for the way it can turn a linear river into a lake with a dam, but the termites turning the desert into a pattern of oases that allow permanent life even in drought periods for hundreds of years - that's much more fascinating, " he told BBC News.

BBC: Termites 'engineer fairy circles'

When teachers guide students in gaining awareness that industrial agriculture writ large, for example, results in chemical runoff from nitrogen-based fertiliers in the Mississippi River that in turn creates a massive dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico so large that it is visible to the human eye through satellite distant imaging, students are able to grasp the basis for sustainable agriculture.

FORBES: Daniel Goleman on the Importance of Ecological Intelligence

Enbridge and the Environmental Protection Agency estimated the pipeline discharged more than 840, 000 gallons of oil into Talmadge Creek, which feeds into the Kalamazoo River, which in turn flows from near the city of Battle Creek into Lake Michigan.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

The river runs south past Mobile and into Mobile Bay, which in turn flows into the Gulf of Mexico.

NPR: Fuel Barges Explode, Catch Fire In Ala.; 3 Hurt

"While this case was about one stream, the wider implication is we had a property owner trying to turn back the law to the view of the public right of navigation that existed before the Moose River decision, " Caffrey said.

WSJ: Judge: NY paddlers can use stream on private land