BATH The Winnegance sawmills once represented the greatest concentration of tidal mills in the world, and now Maine is home to the nation’s first commercial-scale tidal energy project. So Bath ...

Unlike regular tides, tidal bores are unpredictable and can be violent, reaching speeds of up to 25 mph, posing danger to people and wildlife, while impacting the ecology of river mouths.

There’s not many places where tidal bores happen. The Cook Inlet is home to the only regularly occurring bore tides in the United States — in Turnagain Arm and Knik Arm.

No one who suffers from scientific curiosity should miss seeing a tidal bore at least once in his life. The locality and conditions under which the Severn Bore can be seen make it an ideal object ...

In Gloucestershire, England, “bore rider” Ben Rogers surfs the river Severn, one of the UK’s longest rivers, which runs several hundred kilometres from mid-Wales to the Bristol Channel.