The jaw-dropping gorges of the Swiss Alps were created by a one-two punch of grinding glaciers and slicing rivers, a new study suggests. For years, geologists have argued about the processes that ...

The river Isel, the last longer free-flowing glacial river in the Alps, was today officially declared a "National River sanctuary" by WWF Austria amidst concerns that further hydropower developments ...

Take your Rhine River cruise to new heights next year by adding a train trip on the Glacier Express.that will take you to the Swiss Alps. The 10-night Riviera River Cruises’ sail-and-rail tour departs ...

1. Large dams on the Sog and Blanda rivers provide hydroelectric power for which island country in the North Atlantic Ocean? 2. Lapis lazuli is mined in the province of Badakhshan near the border of ...

Contemporary evolution of forest margins was studied on the middle section of the Ubaye, a gravel bed river of the Southern Alps. A recolonization of the valley flat by Pinus sylvestris which began ...

River islands are defined as discrete areas of woodland vegetation surrounded by either water-filled channels or exposed gravel. They exhibit some stability and are not submerged during bank-full ...