Rivers leave measurable height signatures that satellites can track, helping scientists detect erosion and flood risks sooner ...

A new study of the freshwater greenfin darter fish suggests river erosion can be a driver of biodiversity in tectonically inactive regions. New findings could explain biodiversity hotspots in ...

Rivers are Earth's arteries. Water, sediment and nutrients self-organize into diverse, dynamic channels as they journey from the mountains to the sea. Some rivers carve out a single pathway, while ...

River-channel migration is a key geological process that strongly influences society and the environment — it determines the viability of human settlements, infrastructure and ecology on the bank, and ...

It’s mid-morning at an oxbow on the Mendenhall River, and signs of change are all around. A handful of spruce trees, felled by river erosion, sit awash in the gray-green rush. Silty ledges, ...

A resident of East Bahuka village in Bangladesh’s Sirajganj district shows where land he used to own was lost to growing erosion along the Jamnua River. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION/Syful Islam As ...

Charlotte Milne receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Public Scholars Initiative at UBC. The research mentioned in this article received funding ...

Flathead Valley conservation officials Monday will release a request for proposals to gauge how recreational boating impacts the increasingly crumbly riverbanks of the lower Flathead. The erosion ...

To address this problem, Murphy et al. measured the variability in strength and chemical composition of basalt (the most common volcanic rock) along river valleys that cross large gradients in mean ...

As high water recedes, communities on the coast and along the lower Kuskokwim River are taking stock of flood damage and erosion after two windy storms in quick succession filled rivers and streams ...