How can rivers determine the long-term fate of the world’s water supply? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as a pair of researchers investigated changes in global river ...
How do rivers choose their paths? Why do some rivers form single channels, while others divide into many threads? The questions may sound simple, but they are plagued by dynamic and complex forces ...
How do rivers choose their paths? Why do some rivers form single channels, while others divide into many threads? The questions may sound simple, but they are plagued by dynamic and complex forces ...
A new Stanford study challenges the decades-old view that the rise of land plants half a billion years ago dramatically changed the shapes of rivers. Rivers generally come in two styles: braided, ...
Pictured is a shallow reef flat channel on the atoll of Tetiaroa, located north of Tahiti in the Society Islands. MIT researchers have found evidence that island rivers may carve out paths in ...
Most people hear “atmospheric river” and imagine flooded roads. That’s only half the story. Atmospheric rivers are moving ...